Summer Internship (Year 1, 2 and 3)

The Summer Internship is a comprehensive non-credit bearing experiential learning component in our BBiomedSc curriculum open to all students in their first 3 years of studies. Three types of subsidised Summer Internships will be provided to BBiomedSc students, namely, (i) Local Research Internship, (ii) Overseas Research Internship and (iii) Industrial Internship. Students are expected to take on a 8 week internship work during the Summer Semester. For Local Research Internships, students are expected to conduct research activities in a research laboratory within the LKS Faculty of Medicine and supervised by a staff member from the Faculty (Local Supervisor). For Overseas Research Internship, students will be attached to research laboratories at overseas or Mainland Universities and Institutions, and will be supervised by staff members of the attachment laboratory (Overseas Supervisor). Finally, students participating in the Industrial Internship are expected to work in an external agency related to the field of Biomedical Sciences or in other industries and will be supervised by staff members of that agency (the External Supervisor).

For details, please contact the programme coordinators: Professor Cheng-han Yu (Local and Overseas Research Internship) and  Dr. Jada Lee (Industrial Internship)

Local Research Internship – Information for HKUMed PIs

Objective:
To provide Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences (BBiomedSc) / Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics (BSc(Bioinformatics)) students with early exposure to research activities during the summer

Duration:
8 weeks

Application:
Students will be provided with an application form and are responsible for initiating the application by contacting a supervisor whose research aligns with their interests. The completed application form must include the internship supervisor’s signature and be submitted by the student to the School of Biomedical Sciences office. To ensure high-quality research experiences, each supervisor may oversee a maximum of three internship students.

Internship supervisor:
Academic staff and lecturers within the Faculty of Medicine are eligible to serve as internship supervisors. The School of Biomedical Sciences will offer financial subsidies to supervisors for hosting interns.

Examples of research activities:

• Perform small projects mentored by PhD student or postdoctoral fellow
• Acquire laboratory techniques
• Attend / participate in laboratory meetings, seminars, and journal club

Requirements for BBiomedSc / BSc(Bioinformatics) students to complete the internship programme

• Submit an internship report to the supervisor in the end of the internship programme
• Prepare and present a research poster on the poster day