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ANChan59

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My 2 cents about Pharmacy in HK:

1. In HK medical doctors dominated the medical field, pharmacist just 2nd best. Not like in other countries, segregation of medicine and pharmacy.

2. Most graduates work for HA, if no opening for Pharmacists, they may work as senior dispensers (Do you mind to work under a classmate because of limited vacancy?) or work in drug stores or other healthcare groups.

3. Not much R&D opportunities in HK, except MNC, most local drug manufacturers aim for genuine drugs.

4. If aim for R&D, must go for overseas or work in local universities or new start-up in Science Park.

5. The admission grades pretty close to MBBS, particularly for some students don't like bloody.......

6. MBBS - HKU + CUHK 420 seats,
Pharm - HKU + CUHK 70 seats

That's what I got from a post-PhD from a local university. My son heard about that and dropped Pharmacy.... aim higher for MBBS......

ANChan59

ANChan59

We encourage our son to take any professional degree and then graduate school....... We try to open many options for him to evaluate in details, even the first degree is a wrong choice(except MBBS, too expensive to waste other's chance), still a professional one and take another graduate program later.

My case - Professional + MBA +...
My wife - General + MBA + ...

Too general may not be a good approach from my point of view, unless he has no choice, then take BBA or BA.

No need to debate here, that's our preference only; different backgrounds have difference focus.

ANChan59

原帖由 LailaiChan 於 11-11-10 14:28 發表
AnChan
唔好意思,我的英文水準唔太高,你的意思是否即係藥劑都係博唔過,咁可以給多少少意見
另外兒子有幸下星期到科大interview, 想問問衣著方面是否最好穿西裝 ...

Pharmacy still a good program, but keen competition. No harm to try, he can decide when he received the offer.

Dress code, depends on programs, for business can be formal or smart causal. Personally, smart causal is the best. Also, check his hair & color, ear ring...... you know what I mean.

ANChan59

原帖由 mattsmum 於 11-11-14 18:17 發表
i don't know, but you can try to contact the hong kong institutes of engineers, they have 19 or so kinds of engineers- traffic/acoustic/railway/geotech......

HKIE website to show the detail 19 disciplines as the following link:
http://www.hkie.org.hk/eng/html/downloads/membership.asp

ANChan59

KWT

可昨天佢竟然給我一本中七指南和明報聯招選科,叫我幫他選25個choice.其實我知道佢已經揀了一些學系,可能佢想知道我心中所想是否跟他一樣.
[Chat with him and see his choices, build on his choices...... let him make an independent decision.]

根據佢自己講al最好都是得3個c,
[Which subjects and how about UE and Chinese?]

讀什麼都沒有關係,沒有特別興趣喜愛.

[ My sharing in another post which may related to your situation.

Just shared what I did for my son in previous years.

1. Exposure - from P5 onward, I brought him to visit factories in HK & China, different office/work environment, visited universities and saw their research outputs, business lunch and dinner. No specific objectives, just exposure only....

2. Internship - business, research, shadowing ...... like private hospital vs public hospital, family medicine vs surgery.... teaching vs research....... HKU vs HKPU vs CUHK....

3. Strengths vs interests - Maths is his exceptional strength, but he will not take Pure Maths or Science subjects, he is interested in economics and finance which is highly related to numbers and modelling. He loves IT, but he won't study IT (software or hardware) or take it as career......

4. Experience sharing - once he identified some areas of interest, we arrnaged some gatherings or telephone talks with "insiders" to explore the pros and cons........Always have conflcted opinions, it's upto him to validate and narrow down his options. Initially, he was interested in Pharmacy, after talking to two "insiders", he switched to medicine....

5. Elimination - most kids can't tell where to go, but they can tell where they don't want to go........ his elimination may not sensible, just gut feeling or misled by wrong info.....

1-5 not in sequencial order...... That is brainstorming, better before F4.....

Once narrow down the career options, checked the admission requirements (Language, general and special) by attending Information day and seminars, meet with further studies officers........ It's critical to pick suitable subjects and admission grades before F4.

No matter how hard we try, still have gaps....... that's what he need to improve between F4 - F6.

Different family has different ways of doing career exploration. Just sharing, no right or wrong..... no single way.]

佢讀PHY, CHEM, BIO,沒修數學,所有精算,財務都不能報讀,我打算揀些professional,但med, law都要很多A,要填25個choice什難,可有什麼advice?

[Will you and your son consider engineering as professional? If yes, try to consider Biomedical Engineering. Pls find the attached link and I elaborated more on the program. Even, he didn't take maths, HKPU may accept him and he needs to take a self-learning Maths module in yr 1, for students with maths at AL, will exempt this module. Take a look.

http://forum.edu-kingdom.com/red ... o=lastpost#lastpost

Law in CityU may be another choice...

BBA is another general options...... but not for big 3.

If you look at JUPAS website, around 70% of main round offers go to Band A choices, so just focus on Band A & B choices should be ok. ]

ANChan59

[ 本帖最後由 ANChan59 於 11-11-17 16:20 編輯 ]

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原帖由 KWT 於 11-11-17 15:56 發表
CU 生物醫學工程學有聽過嗎?出路如何?

Refer to post #28...

ANChan59

原帖由 樂樂 於 11-11-18 11:29 發表
咁激烈架,咁我仔唔晒諗.

Check the admission grades first....... may surprise you....

ANChan59

原帖由 樂樂 於 11-11-20 16:01 發表

又係既,有道理.

其實讀風險管理出路好唔好呢?

亞仔有個好朋友,數學好叻,佢修讀精算畢業後,係保險公司做左冇幾耐就辭左工啦,唔知是否晚晚收11點,又或冇興趣,佢又返去大學讀另一行既學位,所以我覺得修讀 ...

In CUHK, two programs are similar related to 精算, one for Risk management and the other for QFin.

My son prefer QFin, his friends who are more interested in Maths may prefer 精算....... He is good in maths, but he may go for more sales and marketing job and not calculation. He knows the difference in line and staff functions in the real world, but he also needs to meet the target and budget.

After working a couple years, a MBA or LLB can be a good combination.

ANChan59

Pls check your pm.

ANChan59

In CUHK, two programs are similar related to 精算, one for Risk management and the other for QFin. [在中大，有兩個課程歸類精算，保險+風險管理及計量金融。]

My son prefer QFin, his friends who are more interested in Maths may prefer 精算....... He is good in maths, but he may go for more sales and marketing job and not calculation. He knows the difference in line and staff functions in the real world, but he also needs to meet the target and budget.
[我小兒偏好計量金融，他的好朋友尤其是喜歡數學者會較喜歡保險+風險管理的精算.......他精於數學，但他較喜歡擔任市務及銷售工作，而非只是計算/精算起(他會選計量金融之下)。他知道前線及後勤的分別，經濟不境，後勤會首當其衝，當然要負擔栺標及預算。]

After working a couple years, a MBA or LLB can be a good combination. [工作幾年後，讀多個工商管理碩士或法律是不錯的組合。]

ANChan59

原帖由 樂樂 於 11-11-23 10:37 發表


咁睇來CU 既QFin, Risk Man 呢d課程好受歡迎喎,呢度都有幾個,雖然我地係兩條龍,你地新制冇舊年既收生資料,會唔會好難選科?

Check your PM

ANChan59

From my research so far, HKUST and CUHK may still go for that, but HKU some programs may be waived from the school based admission. [confirmed from HKUST admission office] that's why some parents said, if there is choice go for HKU esp top programs.

ANChan59

"數學與信息工程" is a cold program, just so so. The most demanding is BME and need higher admission grades.

ANChan59

原帖由 ElizaW 於 11-11-29 13:52 發表
Study in PHARMACY, Physics, Chemisty & Bio, nursing all can being a Medical Sales Representative. All the products items including Health care products, medical equipments,
pharmaceutical and healthc ...

It's a good suggestion.

But in two years time, HK may pass the Medical Device Regulatory Control, the medical device will under tighter control. The Medical Device Control Office under Dept of Health, will regulate manufacturers, importers & exporters, distributors...... the medical sales may need to go through retraining to upgrade their knowledge.

Most citizens in HK may not know, upto now, we don't have any ordinance to regulate the safety and efficacy of medical devices from simple condom to implantable pace maker.....

Good prospects...