The establishment of Hong Kong's third medical school at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has been approved by the HKSAR Government.
This approval represents a significant advance in addressing Hong Kong's future healthcare needs through an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to medical education.
The careful selection and approval process, guided by the experts of the Task Group, ensures this new school will be a powerful complement to the existing medical ecosystem, directly addressing long-term societal needs.
The new medical school will be built upon a solid foundation of HKUST’s distinctive advantages. It will draw upon the University’s deeply international character and global networks to attract diverse talent and foster a world-class learning environment.
The school will cultivate a new breed of medical professionals: ethically grounded, clinically outstanding, and technologically adept. The school will leverage HKUST's strengths in data science, artificial intelligence, and robotics, embedding these technologies directly into clinical training. This interdisciplinary model, which merges science, engineering, and business, will equip graduates to solve complex health challenges and drive translational research from the lab to the bedside, leading to breakthroughs in diagnostics, therapeutics, and patient care.
