We are pleased to announce that the poster presentation of Dr D Vackova, Dr TK Wu and Dr JM Johnston: "Building a bridge between undergraduate clinical education and research: Research competences of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) medical students" has been awarded the Award of Merit at the Frontiers in Medical and Health Sciences Education International Conference as organized by  the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong on December 6-7, 2013.