Teaching and Development Grants (TDG) Sharing Session
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1:00pm-2:00pm
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This seminar aims to help Faculty colleagues who are planning a TDG project or who are just interested in medical education research. It will help provide insight into the design and thinking behind successful HKUMed TDG projects through the sharing by the following speakers:
Empowering the Medical Educators of Tomorrow: Training Clinical Year Students for Clinical and Teaching Success
Dr. Ginger Wai Kuen Ko, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
This project revolutionize Orthopaedics and Traumatology (O&T) bedside teaching by implementing a flipped classroom and peer teaching approach with 200 clinical MBBS students in their year 5 and 6. Students have to prepare for class in advance by familiarizing themselves with the clinical examination content, search for their own clinical cases in O&T wards, and also revise the steps on how to teach and coach others effectively. During the bedside teaching sessions, students will take on the role as Peer Teachers (PTs), leading their peers in performing various clinical practices on patients in the O&T wards in the Queen Mary Hospital. PTs will make critical decisions, instruct their peers on suitable clinical examination procedures, and perform demonstration to the peers based on the patients’ conditions. To ensure the teaching and learning quality, throughout the bedside session, clinical physicians as tutors are also present to monitor and oversee student performance. Tutors intervene and correct immediately if PTs are implementing inaccurate concepts. At the end of the bedside session, PTs will receive feedback from tutors, and fellow classmates regarding their clinical decision-making, clinical examination proficiency, patient management, and their teaching/coaching skills. In addition, the project aims to develop a comprehensive teaching reference tool integrated into HKU Moodle. These training materials, short teaching videos, and best practice guides were all integrated.
A survey was administered to gauge the effectiveness of this project, with a response rate of >72%, and >74% of respondents found this new paedology implemented in this bedside session is effective in enhancing the teaching and learning experience. The anticipated outcomes of this project include increased student active engagement, improved clinical decision-making skills, enhanced teaching and leadership abilities, immediate feedback, and the creation of a comprehensive teaching reference tool.
Audio-visual Intervention to Enhance Students’ Learning Engagement in Microbiology Class
Dr. Chun Sing Lam, School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Microbiology is one of the essential life science subjects embedded in nursing curriculum. Essential microbiological knowledge facilitates hospitals and healthcare organizations to draft infectious control guidelines to ameliorate risk of disease transmission, prevent potential epidemics and safeguard public health. However, pre-registration nursing students often perceive the concepts as too abstract to learn, leading to a lack of motivation and engagement in learning. To tackle this challenge, we introduce different audio-visual aids, notably 1.) Animated videos, 2.) 360-degree Video and 3.) PhotoVoice learning activity.
Animated videos are developed to focus on clinically relevant foodborne pathogens-induced diseases with the use of daily life scenarios. 360-degree videos document laboratory techniques of microbiological enumeration and classification that are relevant to the ‘Laboratory Diagnosis’ module of microbiology lectures. PhotoVoice learning activity comprises photo-taking and in-class sharing sessions. It empowers students’ learning autonomy and enhances their engagement in the class.
The outcomes of this research are pivotal in guiding the broader application of such interactive methodologies across various health-related and science disciplines.
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Dr. Ginger Wai Kuen Ko
School of Clinical Medicine
Dr. Chun Sing Lam
School of Nursing
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