Six

To be fair to whoever planning the medical curriculum, there has been an explosion of medical knowledge in the past 20 years, and the timetable of our students would inevitably be tightly packed.

That's why many people are long for the new 6-year medical curriculum (as a result of the new 3+3 system of secondary school).

But apparently no. It seems more likely that the 5-year core teaching would be continued, and the extra year left for general education.

I must admit I have difficulty to understand why we don't just put some basic science subjects for the "year-zero" student. For example:

• biochemistry
• molecular biology
• immunology
• genetics
  
• statistics
• psychology
• health care and social welfare system
• English (and Chinese, I'm afraid)

Isn't this quite sufficient for an entire year ?