Seminar overview:
This seminar will provide insight into how failed TDG proposals eventually turn to successful ones through the sharing by Dr John Fung and Dr Jian Yang. Dr Julie Chen, Prof Julian Tanner and Dr Gordon Wong, members of the Faculty Teaching and Learning Quality Committee, will also discuss what is considered when recommending Faculty support for a project.

TDG projects:

The Use of Innovation ‘Hybrid Immersive Simulation Experience (HISE)’ in a Standardized Simulation Curriculum to Enhance Undergraduate Clinical Competence and Readiness to Practice
Dr John Fung

This project aims to examine the application of a standardized simulation curriculum to undergraduate nursing students that focuses on the educational outcomes: clinical competence, critical thinking, and readiness for practice. Providing high-quality clinical experiences for students has been a perennial challenge for nursing programs. The short patient stays, high patient acuity, high-risk care settings will lead to disparities in the learning experience. Moreover, precipitating challenges have emerged with more programs competing for limited clinical sites, and that imposed increasingly challenge to provide sufficient and suitable placements that satisfy program accreditation requirements.

Using Virtual Reality to Enhance Vertical Integration of Basic and Clinical Anatomical Knowledge
Dr Jian Yang

Educational technologies have created many new possibilities in the way we make learning happen in students. Since the advent of virtual reality (VR) technology, it has been gradually adapted into university education as an innovative educational intervention. This “new kid on the block” has extensive research potential. It allows users to enter an immersive simulated world that mimics the reality and plays a role in knowledge acquisition as well as application. Although the initial development of educational content can be costly and time-consuming, modifications can be quickly made and immediately distributed once the developmental process is finalised.

In the School of Biomedical Science, we are proposing the application of VR in undergraduate anatomy teaching to better integrate basic and clinical sciences. Coupled with our task-oriented practical approach, we aim to promote active learning, problem-solving and knowledge application instead of rote memorisation and didactic teaching and learning. The effectiveness of VR as a learning tool will first be assessed in conjunction with other existing learning modalities, followed by a large-scale application in dissection classes.

Speakers:

Dr John Fung, School of Nursing, HKU

Dr Jian Yang, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU

Dr Julie Chen, BIMHSE & Dept of Family Med & Primary Care, HKU

Prof Julian Tanner, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKU

Dr Gordon Wong, Dept of Anaesthesiology, HKU

Moderator:

Dr Binbin Zheng, BIMHSE, HKU