Since 1999 the College has been looking into the development of O&G subspecialties in Hong Kong and information on this matter has been announced in the previous issues of DialOGue and college correspondence. A subspecialist is a specialist obstetrician-gynaecologist, i.e. FHKAM(O&G), with adequate training and experience in one of the O&G subspecialties. A subspecialist status can be attained in one of 3 ways:

• academy fellows satisfying a set of stringent requirements will be accredited as foundation subspecialists
• academy fellows engaged actively in subspecialty practice and partially meeting the set of stringent requirements will be accredited if the requirements can be fully satisfied within a defined prospective period of assessment
• academy fellows completing the future subspecialty training programs will be accredited after passing the respective assessment

Over the past years four subspecialities have been established:

• Gynaecological Oncology

• Urogynaecology

• Reproductive Medicine

• Maternal Fetal Medicine

Foundation fellows and first fellows in each of the subspecialties have now been accredited. Training programs have also been designed and are available from The webpage of the individual subspecialites.