Side Story: HKU Teaching and Learning Festival

The HKU Teaching and Learning Festival 2021 was held in April and May 2021.  The festival aims at celebrating the achievements of teaching innovation and development by HKU teachers. Teachers and students from HKU Med were actively engaged in the festival.

Open classroom observations and poster showcases are the two highlights that offered exciting opportunities for witnessing and experiencing how excellent teaching creates a positive impact on student learning.  The Online Interprofessional Education (IPE) by Dr Fraide Ganotice has provided two Open Classroom observations for colleagues from other faculties.

Seven groups from HKU Med have joined the poster showcase session, Dr Julie Chen and her team, and Dr Fraide Ganotice and the IPE team were two of three winners of the poster showcase in the festival.

Participants of poster showcase:

• An untapped resource: students as near-peer teachers in medical education by Evelyn Chan (MBBS V), Vernice Chan (MBBS V), and Dr Julie Chen, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care
• Using Flipped Classroom and Simulation Case Scenario to enhance Nursing Students’ Clinical Reasoning by Dr Maggie Mee Kie Chan, School of Nursing
• Combining e-learning platform with web conferencing – a novel approach to running a “virtual” Radiology Workshop for undergraduates in the COVID-19 era by Dr Keith Wan-Hang Chiu, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
• Interprofessional Education: A Transformative Online Collaborative Learning Process Model by Dr Fraide Ganotice, Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education
• MindNP – Building the Mindful capacity for the Nursing Practicum: an online peer learning approach by Dr Angie Ho Yan Lam, School of Nursing
• Online learning during COVID – experience at HKUMed by Professor Julian Alexander Tanner, School of Biomedical Sciences
• Utilising Mobile Technology and Virtual-Reality for Task Oriented Practical in Histology and Gross Anatomy Labs by Dr Jian Yang, School of Biomedical Sciences

TDG Workshops:  “Walkthrough the Simulation Ward activity” by the Quality and Safety Education Subcommittee, School of Nursing, and “Integrating 21st Century Skills in University Curriculum through Experiential Learning: Experiences of Medical Education in Hong Kong” by Dr Abraham Wai, Emergency Medicine Unit attracted crowd of audience.

More information can be found at https://www.cetl.hku.hk/tdgfest21/