Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination
Application of the 2012 Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination for applicants other than Listed Chinese medicine practitioners is now closed.
The 2012 Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination Part I Written Examination will be held in June 2012, and Part II Clinical Examination will be held in August 2012.
Listed Chinese medicine practitioners and persons re-sitting Part I or Part II of the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination should submit their enrolment forms from 15.9.2011 to 30.3.2012.
The "Candidates' Handbook for the 2012 Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination" and the enrolment form may be obtained at the Secretariat of the Chinese Medicine Council of Hong Kong, downloaded from this homepage, or obtained by fax through the Telephone Hotline System (2574 9999) of the Chinese Medicine Division of the Department of Health. Please note that the enrolment form must be submitted within the application period as mentioned above.
Under section 61 of the Chinese Medicine Ordinance, a person shall be eligible to undertake the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination if: -
- he has satisfactorily completed such an undergraduate degree course of training in Chinese medicine practice or its equivalent as is approved by the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board; or
- he has become a listed Chinese medicine practitioner under the transitional arrangements for registration of Chinese medicine practitioners and has been notified by the Practitioners Board that he has to undertake and pass the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination before he is eligible for registration as registered Chinese medicine practitioners.
The undergraduate degree course mentioned in section 61 of the Chinese Medicine Ordinance must fulfil the basic requirements as determined by the Chinese Medicine Practitioners Board, which include:
(a) A full-time on campus degree course with duration of not less than 5 years, including a clinical training of not less than 30 weeks. Other than the clinical internship and clinical practice, the course must be fully conducted in the institution awarding the bachelor degree in Chinese medicine; and (b) The course must include the following 10 compulsory subjects: (i) Basic Theories of Chinese Medicine; (ii) Diagnostics of Chinese Medicine; (iii) Chinese Materia Medica; (iv) Chinese Medicinal Formulary; (v) Internal Medicine of Chinese Medicine; (vi) External Medicine of Chinese Medicine; (vii) Gynaecology of Chinese Medicine; (viii) Paediatrics of Chinese Medicine; (ix) Orthopaedics and Traumatology of Chinese Medicine; (x) Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Chinese Medicine; and (c) If a course fulfils the requirements stated in (a) but it does not include all the compulsory subjects stated in (b), the course will be accepted as an equivalent course, if the applicant has completed the study of the relevant subject in one of the recognized institutions in accordance with the requirements as stated in Appendix 1 of the "Candidates' Handbook for the 2012 Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination"; and (d) The institutions conducting the course must fulfil the basic requirements of the university and clinical teaching in terms of teaching condition, teaching/practical facilities, education management, library information, teacher qualifications, admission standard and clinical training, etc. If a course is conducted, whether in whole or in part, by means of distance learning, such as correspondence, web-based or self-learning, the course does not meet the above basic requirements and will not be accepted.
For the contents, eligibility, requirements of the approved courses, list of recognized institutions, syllabus and format, and the application procedure, please refer to the "Candidates' Handbook for the 2012 Chinese Medicine Practitioners Licensing Examination".
