Most of the teaching activities of the Department take place in the fourth year of the medical course at the Lek Yuen Health Centre. Student facilities include the departmental library, seminar room, students' common room with computer and audiovisual facilities and tutorial rooms. The Chinese University's Family Medicine Teaching Clinic is at the Lek Yuen Health Centre in Shatin. It provides care for over 8,000 registered patients. Medical students sit in with the doctors during consultations learning how to identify and manage patients' problems.
Medical staff play an active role in patient education, disease prevention and health promotion.
The clinic is equipped with computerized patient records. This gives greater efficiency in arranging patients' appointments, in caring for patients with continuing problems and in providing periodic health examination.