Applying for College Accreditation of CME Meetings ?

Please send all CME applications to the College Secretariat at Rm 801, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Jockey Club Building, 99 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen, HK or by fax to 27851850.

For your convenience, you can download the application forms as below:

Individual Fellows applying for Cat A meetings (local or overseas)
Organizations applying for Cat A or B meetings (local)

Please complete the application form and send in with full programmes. You are also encouraged to send in your application form by email.

For individual Fellows, retrospective accreditation of Cat A meetings is accepted provided that the application is received not later than 3 months from the date of the meeting.

Category B & D activities will not be retrospectively accredited. Prior application for approval is required. Category C activity (publication) will be accredited after the paper has been published and will be accredited to the same CME-cycle year in which the paper appears in publication.

For your information, the application will go through the following steps. Therefore it is vital that you should send in your application early, preferably 4 weeks before the meeting.

On receiving your application through HK Academy of Medicine, College secretary will channel the applications to respective working groups, according to Appendix 1.
After approving the CME meetings, each working group will send replies back to College Secretariat, who will forward to HKAM for record and necessary action to reply to the respective applicants.
For individual applicants for overseas/local activities, he/she is reminded to fax back the Certificates of Attendance to College for uploading the accredited CME pts.
If the application is from an organizing body, a copy of the College official Attendance Sheets will be sent to that organization by HKAM for recording the Fellows attendance. The Attendance Sheets must be faxed back to the College secretariat within 7 working days after each meeting.

Quality Assurance :

All applications should be preferably be processed within 14 working days; The College secretariat will remind the responsible working group if she does not receive response within 7 working days after relaying the application.
Retreival of Attendance Records: After each meeting, if no attendance record is received within 7 working days, the College secretariat will contact the organising body (in case the record has been lost in mailing).

Instructions on re-direction of applications for CME points accreditation by members of CME subcommittee:

Parties applying for accreditation	Types of meetings	To whom applications are directed ?
HK Paediatric Society, Paediatric Subspecialty Societies	Local Category A meetings	Auto-accreditation
Other Colleges, Societies (note 3)	Local Category A or E meetings	Dr. TSOI Nai Shun, Dept. of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Queen Mary Hospital. (Fax. No. 28184290)
Individual Fellows (note 3)	Overseas or local Category A or E meetings	Dr. TSOI Nai Shun, Dept. of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Queen Mary Hospital. (Fax. No. 28184290)
Public institutions (note 1)	Local Category A or E meetings	Dr. Yam Man Ching, Dept. of Paediatrics, Prince of Wales Hospital (Fax.no. 26360020)
Private hospitals, Private study groups (note 2)	Local Category B or E meetings	Dr Daniel Chiu, Room 709, Champion Building, 301 Nathan Road, Kowloon (Fax no. 23880908)
Individual Fellows (other than Fellows resident overseas) (note 3)	Category C or D activities accreditation	Dr. TSOI Nai Shun, Dept. of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Queen Mary Hospital. (Fax. No. 28184290)
Activities of Hong Kong Medical Association	Local Category A or E meetings	Dr Yuen Hui Leung, Dept. of Paediatrics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Fax No. 2384 5204)
Fellows resident overseas	All meetings held overseas. Category A, B or E	Dr Lee Wai Hong, Dept. of Paediatrics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Fax No. 2384 5204)
All other parties (note 3)	All other meetings	Dr. TSOI Nai Shun, Dept. of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Queen Mary Hospital. (Fax. No. 28184290)

Note 1: (to be redirected to Dr. Yam Man Ching of PWH)

The list includes:
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital
Caritas Medical Centre
Kwong Wah Hospital
North District Hospital
Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital
Prince of Wales Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Hosptial
Queen Mary Hospital
The Grantham Hospital
Tseung Kwan O Hospital
Tuen Mun Hospital
United Christian Hospital
Yan Chai Hospital

Department of Health -- Child Assessement Service
Department of Health -- Clinical Genetic Service
Department of Health - Family Health Service
The University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Note 2: (to be redirected to Dr Daniel Chiu)

The list includes:
Adventist Hospital
Baptist Hospital (coordinator: Dr Mary Kwong Bi Lok)
Canossa Hospital (coordinator: Dr Alfred Tam)
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital
St. Paul's Hospital
St Teresa's Hospital
Private Practicing Paediatricians Study Group (coordinator: Dr Cheng Chun Fai)

Note 3: (to be redirected to Dr. TSOI Nai Shun)

All other societies, colleges or organisations ; All individual Fellows

Please inquire at College secretariat if there is no reply within 14 working days.
Phone: 28718871; FAX: 27851850; Email: enquiry@paediatrician.org.hk
Address: Rm 801, HK Academy of Medicine Building, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen

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