Abstract
• The Communication Skills course (MEDF1031) is offered to over 350 first year undergraduate students in biomedical sciences, Chinese medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health programmes each year and it currently uses six micro-modules for teaching, learning, and assessment.
• These micro-modules provide situational scenarios to help students recognise the importance of effective communication in different healthcare settings.
• However, students in biomedical sciences and public health programmes have consistently indicated through the annual course evaluations that these micro-modules do not sufficiently address their specific future career needs, as their career direction is more diverse than that of other students, such as nursing and pharmacy students.
• To address this concern, this Phase 2 project will add two new micro-modules in to teach students how to communicate effectively when offering ‘genetic counselling’ and ‘scientific data interpretation’.
• Students from other disciplines who participate in this course will also benefit from the new micro-modules as they will provide them with additional resources to enhance their communication skills in other scenarios which are also relevant to healthcare settings and future work environments.
• This Phase 2 project will have the same objective of the previous project by shifting knowledge acquisition to knowledge application.
Brief write-up
Project objectives
The Communication Skills course (MEDF1031) is offered to over 350 first year undergraduate students in biomedical sciences, Chinese medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health programmes each year and it currently uses six micro-modules for teaching, learning, and assessment. These micro-modules provide situational scenarios to help students recognise the importance of effective communication in different healthcare settings. This Phase 2 project will add two new micro-modules in to teach students how to communicate effectively when offering ‘genetic counselling’ and ‘scientific data interpretation’.
Activities, process and outcomes
Due to the social distancing constraints during the COVID-pandemic, we are only able to schedule physical student helper meetings to both rehearse and practise the scripts for video shooting in different venues. The video shooting of the first micro-module was successfully conducted on 20th May 2022. The site visit and video shooting for the second micro-module will be conducted in the CUHK Medical Centre on 8th and 16th June.
Deliverables and evaluation
Not available yet.
Dissemination, diffusion, impact and sharing of good practices
Not available yet.
Impact on teaching and learning
Not available yet.
