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Part-time Training and Employment: Views of Hong Kong Frontline Doctors

Dr J Tsang, Dr C Chiang, Dr K.S. Chan, Dr L.S. Lau, Dr W Mok, Dr H.Y. Tse, Dr W Tsui, Dr B Wong, Dr L Yam, Dr C Yu
Hong Kong Women Doctors Association

Background: The healthcare workforce is evolving with increasing number of women doctors and increasing part-time practice. In Hong Kong, part-time employment or training are not available for most doctors. The Hong Kong Women Doctors Association (HKWDA) would like to examine the attitudes towards part-time employment among doctors.

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Sexual Behaviour of Korean Young Women: Preliminary Study for the Introduction of HPV prophylactic vaccine

A/Prof Ji Young Kwon 1, A/Prof Chan Joo Kim 1, Prof Seung Cheol Kim 2, Prof Young Tae Kim 3,
Prof Yong Sang Song 4, Prof Nak Woo Lee 5, Prof Jae Kwan Lee 5, Prof Kyu Wan Lee 5,
Prof Jong Sup Park 1
1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Catholic University Of Korea, College Of Medicine, 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, 5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Korea University

OBJECTIVE: The decision of optimal age for administration of recently approved prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines depend on the basis of the sexual behavior of each countries. The aim of the study was to survey the age-specific sexual behavior including the sexual debut time and sexual experience in the Korean young women to design the tailored HPV vaccination.

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Rotavirus Vaccines: Global Challenges

Saturday 18 October 1345-1430

Speaker: Proessor Julie Bines MBBS, MD, FRACP

Victor and Loti Smorgon Professor of Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
Head of Clinical Nutrition, Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Royal Children’s Hospital
Head, Intestinal Failure and Clinical Nutrition Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

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IVF and Beyond

Saturday 18 October 1500-1600

Speaker: Dr Lynn Burmeister, MB BS. FRANZCOG CREI Specialist Fertility Clinician

After graduating in medicine from Melbourne University in 1989 and completing an intern year at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, Dr Burmeister commenced training as an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Monash Medical Centre in Clayton. In 1998 Dr Burmeister commenced her Fellowship training in endocrinology and infertility before travelling to the USA where she completed a further two years of training at the Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility – Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. Dr Lynn Burmeister has a formal post-graduate qualification in reproductive medicine (CREI), testifying to her specialist expertise and experience in the treatment of infertility. She is known as a Reproductive Gynaecologist. With more than 10 years’ experience in the management of obstetric and gynaecological conditions Dr Burmeister’s areas of interest and expertise include:

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