Seminar overview:
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 though the sharing by Dr Angie Lam who was recently awarded a TDG and Professor Julian Tanner who has recently completed a TDG project.  Dr Julie Chen and Prof Tanner, members of the Faculty Teaching and Learning Quality Committee, will also discuss what is considered when recommending Faculty support for a project, and Dr Susan Bridges will provide perspective and guidance from the university TDG reviewer perspective.

TDG projects:

Building Psychological Competence among Undergraduate Nursing Students in Clinical Education
Dr Angie Ho Yan Lam

Nursing students experience a high level of stress and anxiety throughout nursing education, especially during the clinical placement. The clinical stress leads to psychological disturbance, poor academic performance, program attrition, and can ultimately affect the quality of patient care. Mindfulness training enhances the capacity for psychological well-being and resilience of healthcare professionals and students. Mindfulness cultivates in an individual a capability of paying attention to the present moment and the personal difficulties without judgement. A systematic review showed that mindfulness intervention may provide a positive impact on nursing students' stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, and sense of well-being. This presentation will describe the proposed project Online Mindfulness-based Pre-Clinical Practicum Program (iMBCP) that seeks to reduce psychological disturbance (stress, anxiety, depression) among nursing students in clinical learning (n=150).
Presentation slides

Evaluating the Impact of Transformative E-learning Initiatives: from the Clinical Curricula to the University
Professor Julian Tanner

The clinical curricula of the University of Hong Kong are undergoing transformative changes in student learning through e-learning modernization. There is a critical need for evaluation of these efforts to provide recommendations for best practice both to later years of our curricula, and also to provide guidance more widely across the University of Hong Kong and beyond. Here, we propose a mixed-method approach to determine the impact of e-learning on student learning, initially with a focus on our MBBS year one students, but with lessons for all our undergraduate programmes. The mixed-method approaches include pre- and post-tests, questionnaires to measure student surface-deep learning, and qualitative interviews. We will triangulate data from these three approaches to provide an evidence-based set of recommendations and guidance for other courses at HKU and globally.

Speakers:

Dr Angie Ho Yan Lam, School of Nursing, HKU

Professor Julian Tanner, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU

Dr Susan Bridges, Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning & Faculty of Education, HKU

Moderator:

Dr Julie Chen, BIMHSE & Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, HKU