Overall Curriculum

The aim of this course is to review the basic knowledge of screening and diagnosis related to fetal medicine, as well as the latest relevant knowledge. It includes: [1] Scan in early pregnancy (before 11 weeks), [2] The 11-14 weeks scan, [3] Second trimester scan, [4] Prenatal diagnosis, [5] Pre-conception counseling and counseling for termination of pregnancy. The course also covers genetic counseling, ethics, and ethical dilemmas in genetic testing and intervention.

This course focuses primarily on multiple pregnancies. It includes: [1] Chorioamnionicity and Twin-twin-transfusion syndrome (TTTS), [2] Twin anaemia polycythemia sequence (TAPS), [3] Twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence (TRAPS), [4] Selective fetal growth restriction (sFGR), and [5] Fetal reduction.

This course covers the pathology, diagnosis and treatment of fetal anaemia and in utero transfusion, and amniotic fluid abnormalities.

The course covers the pathology, diagnosis and treatment of fetal infection, gestational alloimmune diseases, and medical treatments for preterm fetuses and fetal growth restriction.

This course serves to teach students comprehensive knowledge in maternal medicine. It covers: hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), renal disease, cardiac disease, liver disease, respiratory disease, gastrointestinal disease, diabetes, other endocrine diseases, neurological disease, connective tissue disease, haematological disease/VTE, psychiatric disease (including section under mental health ordinance/act), skin disease, neoplastic disease, substance abuse, maternal infection, transplant recipient including immunosuppressant, and maternal mortality including suicide.

This course covers the understanding of perinatal medicine including fetal growth disorders (screening, diagnosis, monitoring, delivery), preterm birth/prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM), alloimmunisation, and perinatal infection.

Clinical genetics deals with direct clinical care of patients with genetic disease, including diagnosis, management and counseling as well as development of a genomic approach to human diseases in clinical settings which requires the application of all of the basic principles of medical genetics taught in this course.

The course will also include genetic counseling, which encompasses basic genetic principles and inheritance patterns, genetic testing techniques in maternal fetal medicine, and genetic counseling for preconception, prenatal, and postnatal stages.

The course covers the understanding of DNA and its architecture, cell division and the use of various techniques to examine these structures, including chromosome banding, FISH and array CGH. It also covers the application of these techniques for the detection of chromosomal abnormalities, developing preanalytic and postanalytic skills in test results interpretation, report writing and communication of result to clinicians.

The course covers prenatal dysmorphology and genetic syndromes, the principles of prenatal screening and diagnosis, and psychological, ethical and legal issues in genetic testing in general, impact on risk assessment of

hereditary and patient privacy.  It will also teach recognisable patterns of human malformation using a combined approach encompassing dysmorphology, formulation of diagnosis, advanced laboratory testing, management and therapy.