HKMLE Part I cheat sheet

HKMLE Part I - Licensing Examination Content

• HKMLE Part I is a written multiple-choice paper (single best answer) testing biomedical sciences and basic clinical knowledge; Part II is the clinical proficiency examination; Part III is the final clinical examination.

• Part I is sat after internship-completion eligibility is assessed; it is a computer-marked MCQ paper with no negative marking, so every item should be answered.

• Core subject weightings include anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pathology, microbiology, and social medicine/community medicine; questions are integrated rather than strictly siloed.

• Hong Kong-specific public health content is examinable: tuberculosis notification, dengue and Japanese encephalitis surveillance, Centre for Health Protection functions, and food-borne outbreak investigation steps.

• Legal framework questions draw on the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161), the Professional Code of Conduct of the Medical Council of Hong Kong, and the Dentists Registration Ordinance where relevant.

• Ethics items test consent (capable patient, best-interests decisions for incapacitated adults), confidentiality exceptions (statutory notification, serious harm to identifiable third parties), and boundary/dual-relationship rules.

• Prescribing questions assume the Hong Kong Antibiotic Stewardship Programme, the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134) for controlled drugs, and the Poisons List requirements for dispensing records.

• Epidemiology calculations appear: incidence vs prevalence, sensitivity/specificity/positive predictive value, relative risk vs odds ratio, and number needed to treat (NNT = 1/absolute risk reduction).

• Anatomy and physiology items favour clinically applied correlations - dermatomes, cranial nerve lesions, acid-base compensation, and renal handling - rather than pure recall of lists.