Medical Experiences
Extracurricular activities for aspiring medical students organized by Universities and Medical-Student led organizations.
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Are you interested in applying for medical school in the future in Hong Kong but struggling to build your CV? No worries, we’re here to help! This is a comprehensive list of medical extracurricular activities and tasterships programmes for students. Some of them are hosted by universities while others are hosted by university-endorsed student organizations. These activities not only give you insights into medical school and the field of medicine but also provide you with additional experience to add to your CV.
Unlike some companies that provide private extracurricular activities and medical experience that comes with a very steep price tag, the activities we include below all have a much more reasonable price. We believe that medical exposure in secondary school is important for aspiring medical students, and that these experiences should be available to anyone who seeks it. We hope that this page will help you find an activity that could eventually change your life.
Below you can find a timeline showing when each event is held over a year. Note that the deadline for application can be months ahead of the date of the event so be sure to check ahead of time and apply at your earliest convenience. It is also worth noting that some of these programmes are quite competitive and the slots may fill up quickly once the application. Additionally, we’ve also categorized these activities into university-organized versus student committee-organized for your reference. However, personally we do not really see much of a difference in the impact within a CV in these two categories.
Activities by medical students-led organizations
AMSA MEDSTART
Audience: HKDSE/Local Schools - Form 3 and above; IB/GCE A-Levels/International Schools - Year 10 and above
Duration: 2 days
Fee: $550 [2025]
Quota: 330
Organised by the Asian Medical Students' Association Hong Kong (AMSAHK), a student organization led by medical students from HKU and CUHK, MedStart is a 2-day medical school immersion program for secondary school students who are interested in applying to medical school.
Some of the program highlights included:
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Lectures by CUHK and HKU professors
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Admissions talk and information on both universities’ curricula
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Tutorials and problem-based learning
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Physical tours of both medical campuses and facilities
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Sharing panel from healthcare professionals and current medical students
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Discussions on bioethical and social issues
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Medical School Escape Room
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Practical activities on specimen labs, anatomy, histology... and more!
Medstart focuses on experiencing the everyday life of a medical student in HKU or CUHK. It is a great way for you to tell if medical school is something that you would enjoy in the future. While it may not be as knowledge-based as other activities, it still offers lectures and discussion around popular medical topics by professors from both universities.
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SSAHK Surgical Taster Camp
Audience: Open to F.4-6 / Year 11-13 secondary school students.
Duration: 2 days
Fee: $600 [2025]
Surgical Taster Camp (formerly Surgical Taster Day) is one of the flagship events of SSAHK. Held annually at HKUMed and CUHK campus, thousands of secondary school students have joined this event over the years. As a participant, you will have a taste of the lives of medical students in both medical schools in Hong Kong. In addition, you will have the chance to practice various suturing techniques with esteemed surgeons in small group tutorials.
Surgical taster camp focuses on the surgical aspect in the field of medicine. If surgery is something that you are interested in, this camp would certainly give you a lot of information and insights into the field of surgery
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HKSAN SPEAD
Audience: Open to all 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝟒/𝟓/𝟔 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝟏𝟎/𝟏𝟏/𝟏𝟐 students.
Duration: 2 days
Fee: $50 [2025]
SPEAD is the acronym for 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞, 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐬, 𝐄𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐀𝐥𝐳𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧. We aim to enhance the knowledge of secondary school students in 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, as well as providing an opportunity to 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬 in psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. SPEAD combined is pronounced as “speed”, echoing that speedy assistance is required.
The activity will be held in both CUHK and HKU. It includes :
1. 📚Deep dive lectures by experts on Stroke (Prof. Gary Lau), Psychosis (Dr. Wing Chung Chang), Eating disorders (Dr. Phyllis Chan), Alzheimer’s disease (Prof. Raymond Chang), and Depression (Dr. Chi Lun Lai)
2. 👥Patient interaction session
3. 👣Career sharing by psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, neurosurgeon, and neuroscientist
4. 🧘🏻♀️Mindfulness workshop, Animal-assisted Therapy, Music Therapy, and Life and Death Education workshop (生死教育及遺物整理講座, in Cantonese)
5. 📍Campus explorations and life at university sharings
By being a participant, you will be able to:
1. 🔎Explore career opportunities in neuroscience-related fields
2. 🧠Learn about treatment options for handling psychiatric & neurological conditions
3. 🗣️Interact with patients and caregivers and learn about their experiences
4. 🏫Tour around university campus and hear from university students about their school lives
HKMAMSS Meet Med
Audience: Open to all secondary school students
Duration: 3 days
Fee: $150 [2025]
Quota: 50
MeetMed is a three-day mentorship and health programme for secondary school students hosted by the Hong Kong Medical Association Medical Students’ Subcommittee (HKMAMSS). You will spend a day at both CUHK and HKU Medical Schools in this event. 🏫 There will be a diverse range of activities such as dissection lab tour, PBL session and etc., where you will gain more insights of life as a medical student at HKU and CUHK, as well as learn about the careers of healthcare professionals and current health-associated issues. 💉
A certificate of participation will be awarded upon completion of the programme. 🎖️
Activities include:
Campus tours 🏃🏻♂️
Dissection lab tour 🫀
Mock PBL sessions 📖
Clinical skills session 🩺
Doctor and student sharings 🥼
HKMA Cantonese Medical Policy Debate Tournament 🗣️
And many more!
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Activities by Universities
HKUMedify
HKUMedify will expose you to a variety of medical disciplines, from medical sciences to clinical practices to public health responses in a global pandemic. It will also give you the chance to engage with our world-leading teachers and researchers, who have created HKUMedify’s programmes, as well as our current students and alumni. You will enjoy master classes, demonstrations, and hands-on interactive workshops.
The programmes are tiered for different year groups to help you make informed decisions as you progress closer to secondary school graduation. Through HKUMedify, we hope you will see that becoming a doctor and a future medical leader can be within your grasp. Take this first step and see where it takes you!
CUHK Summer Clinical Attachment Programme (SCAP)
SCAP is specially designed for secondary school form 5 students (or equivalent) to experience the medical student life at CU Medicine during summer! This fascinating and popular programme attracts a high record of submitted applications every year and has been highly commended by the participants!
What to Expect:
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Doctor shadowing sessions in 2 days to shadow a clinician or physician and to gain insights into his/her clinical work and practice.
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Close interaction with distinguished academic staff, alumni and students.
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A wide array of lectures, workshops, clinical exposure, experiential learning, and interactive sessions to enable your understanding of CU medical curriculum in a real setting.
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Visit to Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center and dissecting laboratory.
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Stay 3 nights at the student hostel with our student ambassadors.
https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/upcoming-events/summer-clinical-attachment-programme-2025
