The Department of Microbiology was established in December 1982 and involves in teaching, research and providing clinical laboratory and consultation services to the Prince of Wales Hospital and other hospitals of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority New Terrritories East Cluster (NTE Cluster). The teaching course offered by our Department is designed for second year medical students as an introduction to microbial diseases, and for third year that focuses on clinical presentation and management of important human microbial diseases. The teaching staff are also involved in courses for medical students of other years, graduate students, specialist training, and undergraduate students from other departments and schools including nursing, pharmacy, and other organizations. Our teaching programmes will educate medical and graduate students to provide the society with high quality physicians and Microbiologists.