Project Objectives
- To present clinical cases to a wider audience of CM learners;
- To facilitate students’ critical thinking in diagnosis and treatment strategy-formulating in the clinical studies of CM; and
- To enhance students’ problem solving skills in terms of clinical learning.
Description of process and deliverables
The project team made several clinical data collection trips to a number of Chinese medicine hospitals in Guangzhou and Dongguan City. The collected clinical data were then edited so that they would be suitable for WebCT format. At present, more than 70 e-cases have been successfully uploaded on WebCT for students’ open access. In addition, the project team organized 3 tutorial workshops to promote the e-case platform. The tutorials also provided technical training regarding how to access and use the e-resources. After each tutorial workshop, an evaluation exercise was conducted to collect students’ feedback on the usefulness of the workshop and their opinions on the usefulness of the e-learning platform. Several interviews were also conducted to collect the opinions of the experts in Chinese medicine.
Evaluation of outcomes
The evaluation of the project outcomes essentially include student and teacher surveys, focus group meeting, expert review of the cases and investigation into students’ performance.
Dissemination of results & deliverables
Three tutorial workshops have been organized to promote the awareness of the e-learning platform among Chinese medicine students. In addition, a pedagogical paper and a conference abstract (invited oral presentation) on e-learning of Chinese medicine have been published (See Appendix). Moreover, the results of the TDG project were exhibited on 18 October 2007 with a poster and multimedia demonstration at the Expo: Excellence Online organized by the CLEAR, CUHK.
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Appendix
Original article and conference abstract resulted from the TDG project:
- Zhi-Xiu Lin, Paul Lam, Alex Wong, Ze-bo Cen, Wai-zhu Sun, Jiang-xia Miao and Carmel McNaught (2009). New Tools for an Ancient Craft: The Use of eCases in Chinese Medicine Education. (Full article). International Journal of e-Learning 8(3): 331-345.
- Zhi-xiu Lin, Eric So, William Cheung, Jiang-xia Miao, Ze-bo Cen and Paul Lam (2007). The use of case-based e-Learning resources in Chinese medicine education. (Abstract). The Proceedings of the 2007 TWGHs Eddie Wang Symposium on Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Hong Kong, p 106. (An oral presentation on the topic was also given at the Symposium).
