Page 8 - CUHK MEDICAL ALUMNI Newsletter Issue 1 Vol 3 2016

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
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NY-BASED ALUMNUS DONATES

HKD1 MILLION TO SET UP SCHOLARSHIP

FOR CUHK SUMMER INTERNS

“This sharing of experience with younger people
is a very fulfilling experience.”

- Dr William Cheung

（蔣威廉醫生, MBChB 1987）

r William Cheung may live and work in New York as a private doctor.
DBut his heart and passion to help young medical students remain in
Hong Kong.
Besides being a specialist in internal medicine, hematology and
oncology, Dr Cheung is also very much a philanthropist - for
he has set up a HKD1 million dollar scholarship for medical
undergraduates from his alma mater, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong (CUHK) - who wish to experience the practicality
of life as a private doctor in New York.
But having summer interns in his clinic is nothing new. For
the past five years, Dr Cheung has been hosting interns.
Every summer he took in two to three students for six to
eight weeks picked by the New Asia College Alumni
Association of Greater New York.
For the first three years he had no medical
students. But two years ago he mentioned to
the College he would like students from the
medical school for a change and got his wish.
He realised that the clinic enjoyed having
the interns around and they had a lot of
interaction with the staff and also with himself.
“I found I could relate a lot of my clinical
experience such as patient interaction to
the students. And, as students, they were