Milestone

Co-organised the International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe) for the first time.

Organised the First Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning Innovations in Rehabilitation Sciences.

Organised Hong Kong's first Clinical Education Conference.

Launched revamped MSc programmes in Advanced Occupational Therapy, Advanced Physiotherapy and Advanced Rehabilitation Sciences.

The 8th PPCR achieved a new milestone for the PPCR series. For the first time, the conference took place not on the soil of China. More than 600 healthcare professionals and students from different countries attended the conference in November 2012 at University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines.

With the implementation of the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) in Hong Kong, RS admitted the first cohort of students for the 4-year BSc (Hons) PT and OT programmes to replace the 3-year curricula which had been run for 24 years.

Continued its effort in developing rehabilitation education in the Chinese Mainland by offering MPT (China) and MOT (China) programmes in Sichuan under the auspices of the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction jointly run by PolyU and Sichuan University.

Launched the first Master in Physical Therapy programme in Chinese Mainland (MPT China). This is an entry-level master degree programme offered in collaboration with Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Successfully launched full-time master programmes. Eleven students from Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the mainland were admitted to MSc in Occupational Therapy. Two overseas students from Taiwan and Qatari enrolled to MSc in Manipulative Therapy.

The Department's Sports research team contributed their expertise to develop a sports injury prevention and rehabilitation programme for national athletes in the Beijing Olympic Games.

Launched its first postgraduate diploma scheme (PgD scheme in Health Care) with special awards in Occupational therapy (OT), Physiotherapy (PT) and Rehabilitation for people with developmental disabilities (RDD).

Established the Rehabilitation Clinic; it was then moved to the present location in Core A.

Admitted its first batch of MSc students for the OT, PT and RDD awards under the Postgraduate scheme in Health Care.

Admitted its first research degree student.

Both OT and PT programmes were validated into BSc (Hons) programmes. The Department hosted the First Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation.