Advanced Internal Medicine (AIM)


AIM Specialty Board

Requirements
  • Pass Joint HKCPIE/MRCP(UK) examination
  • At least 36-month Basic Physician Training at accredited centres
  • A member of HKCP

Training Checklist
  1. Submit the  Higher Physician Training (HPT) Trainee Registry (updated on 15 May 2025)
  2. Fill in  AIM Training Record Sheet (stick it in the log book)
  3. Complete Self-Learning Tool (SLT) 2 times per year (6-month cycle with deadline in Mar and Sep every year)
  4. Write 2 Case Reports
  5. Attend interim assessment ( fill the  Interim and Exit Assessment forms [updated October 2019] )
  6. Attend exit assessment ( fill the  Interim and Exit Assessment forms [updated October 2019] )

Sample questions for AIM Exit Assessment

Others

Changing Training Specialty

Suspension of training

Guidelines for case report

Examples of well written case reports

Should a hole in the heart be closed?

Anti-TIF1 gamma associated dermatomyositis

A case of Cushing’s syndrome with hepatitis B reactivation

Stiff-person syndrome associated with thymoma

Purulent pneumococcal pericarditis: an uncommon but severe form of invasive pneumococcal disease

Pneumocystis pneumonia while on steroid and rituximab for pemphigus vulgaris

An elderly woman with fever and poor skin condition – a case of complicated MRSA bacteraemia

A typical case of carbamazepine related Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis

A patient with vertebral artery dissection

What to do if the patient continued to be big?

Neurosyphilis

A case of normal pressure hydrocephalus presenting with frequent falls

A case of thyoid storm

An Elderly Woman with Generalized Numbness

A case of statin associated immune mediated necrotising myopathy

Resistant thyrotoxicosis

Just another case of GE?

A middle aged lady with haemoptysis

A case of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis

A case of piperacillin-tazobactam anaphylaxis

A neglected disease entity in Hong Kong

Autonomic Neuropathy Complicating A Patient With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

A case of mercury-associated nephrotic syndrome in a young lady

A case of post-tuberculosis recurrent haemoptysis

Just a simple headache?

A case of ectopic Cushing’s Syndrome

A patient with bilateral pulmonary embolism presented as loss of consciousness

A Case of Debilitating Paradoxical Reaction in Tuberculosis

A Case of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus with the Classical Triad of Symptoms

A case of immune mediated necrotizing myopathy

A case of Rickettsial infection and its diagnostic challenges

Just Dementia? A case of central nervous system lymphoma.

Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Paradox of Bleeding and Clotting

A case of immune thrombocytopenia with relapse

Uncontrollable seizures, hyponatremia, and cognitive decline - A case of anti-LGI-1 antibody autoimmune encephalitis

An unusual stroke patient with a temperature

Metformin associated lactic acidosis. To fear or not to fear

A rare cause of thyrotoxicosis

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