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12 / Periscope

While all HKUMed
classes in Shenzhen have
been suspended to allay
students’ worries, simi-
lar arrangements are
not applied to students
studying Chinese medi-
cine (see table 1). All Chi-
nese medicine students
are still required to com-
plete the credit-bearing
internships in the Main-
land to fulfil their gradu-
ation requirements and
be eligible to sit for the
Chinese Medicine Prac-
titioners Licensing Ex-
amination administered
by the Chinese Medicine
Council of Hong Kong
(CMCHK).
Some students feel
bout seven months into the or delete photos.” It also mentions anxious about going to China these
anti-extradition bill saga, the that the officers asked them to delete days after reading media reports about
Aprotest has shown little sign of anything related to Hong Kong pro- students having their phones and be-
ebbing. Fears and worries triggered by test and jotted down their Hong Kong longings checked as they crossed into
the issue have spilt over to the educa- identity card information. Apart from
tion field as some university students checking their phones, the
revealed their experience of being mainland immigration offic-
stopped for scrutiny when crossing ers also flipped through their
the border into the Mainland from medical notes.
Hong Kong. Under the current curricu-
lum of the Bachelor of Medi-
A Facebook post sparks students’ cine and Bachelor of Surgery
safety concerns (MBBS) programme of HKU,
Janet, a final year medical student all year five and six students
from the University of Hong Kong are required to attend obstet-
(HKU), reveals two of her fellow stu- rics and gynaecology, ortho-
dents were stopped by mainland offic- paedics, and emergency med-
ers at the border in August 2019. “They icine clerkship sessions at
[the two students] were asked to log the University of Hong Kong
in to their Facebook accounts which – Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-
they thought was unnecessary,” she SZH), which is one of their
says. teaching hospitals.
The students involved published Soon after the Facebook
a bilingual post on the Facebook page post went viral, the LKS Fac-
named “Medic Secrets”, hoping to ulty of Medicine (HKUMed)
alert other HKU medical students and announced in an email to all
raise awareness on the issue. students on August 19, 2019
The Facebook post reads, “We were that all speciality clerkship at
asked to show our Whatsapp conver- the HKU-SZH in the first se-
sations and photo albums, and other mester of 2019/20 school year
students were asked to quit groups will be rescheduled.