Musculoskeletal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Orthopaedics

Information Session

Date	:	14 Jan 2025 (Tue)
Time	:	7:00pm
Format /venue	:	Seminar Room, 9/F, Main Block, Prince of Wales Hospital (Face to face Only)
(please email to mrgo@cuhk.edu.hk for registration to the above session)
Other information	:	8 April 2025 (Tue) (ZOOM)

Poster for Sep 2024 Admission

Our Course:

The MSc in Musculoskeletal Medicine, Rehabilitation and Geriatric Orthopaedics (MSc MRGO) is designed to meet the needs of increasing training and education demand of the health care professionals in the field of rehabilitation, musculoskeletal medicine and geriatric orthopaedics in line with the projected ageing population and associated announced major development strategy of the Hospital Authority and SAR Government Health Care expansion plan in Hong Kong.

This consolidated MSc programme is combined from our previous programme, known as the MSc in Musculoskeletal Medicine and Rehabilitation and MSc in Geriatric Orthopaedics, since 2017.

New course structure since 2024/25

In order to increase the flexibility of module selection for favorable contents, the Streaming policy is phasing-out starting from the 2024/25 admission. Students admitted now can select the elective courses without being boundary to selecting the stream of studies. (click the chart below to see the details)

Target Students:

This programme is to provide advanced academic training to professionals who are working closely with musculoskeletal disorders and/or with geriatric orthopaedic issues, such as medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other allied healthcare professionals, researchers and community practitioners.

Student Projects:

Students are required to develop a Project, in forms of Systematic Reviews, Meta Analysis, Retrospective Studies, preliminary research, or Randonmized Control Trial studies. Below are the project list of the previous 5 cohorts: