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Prof. Michael Reichel (Chair Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences) attended the 16th Asian Association of Veterinary Schools (AAVS) meeting held in conjunction with the 33rd World Veterinary Congress in Incheon, South Korea, from 27 to 31 August 2017.
A team of dedicated faculty and staff at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has received the 2017 Team Award for Teaching Excellence from the University Grants Committee (UGC) for the groundbreaking Discovery-enriched Curriculum (DEC).
The first intake of students of the new Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine Programme had their first lecture on Monday, 04 September 2017.
The purpose of this visit was to gain an insight into the work of the Centre for Applied One Health Research and Policy Advice and to find out more about the academic and professional programmes in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences.
In July 2017, CityU's CVMLS offered a 10-day Summer School programme to bring an inspirational experience to 28 secondary school students who aspire to becoming veterinarians in Hong Kong. Last year CityU sent 14 students to Cornell University to experience their 3-week programme. This year we decided to run the programme locally modelled on the Cornell experience.
Prof. Michael Yang Interviewed on Biochips & Early Cancer Detection (in Cantonese with Chinese Subtitles)
On 2 August 2017, City University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences signed an important Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PARKnSHOP, one of Hong Kong’s largest supermarket chains. The College has accorded food safety as one of its four major priorities (the others being infectious diseases, aquaculture and animal welfare) both for the College as well as its Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine programme, which begins this September and is Hong Kong’s first ever veterinary degree programme.
Professor Lorin Warnick, Dean of College of Veterinary of Medicine, Cornell University paid a two-day visit to CVMLS on 29 and 30 June 2017 as part of the strategic and continuous collaboration between CVMLS of CityU and CVM of Cornell University.
CityU Centre for Animal Welfare (CAW) is proud to be a partner of the Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations (FAVA) in delivery of the Post Graduate Continuing Education in Advanced Animal Welfare online Course 2017. This course is highly recommended for individuals who are working in veterinary medicine and veterinary education.
Demand is huge for Hong Kong students wishing to study veterinary medicine. This was clear from the recently launched Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine Programme (BVM).