Background
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The BPharm curriculum includes
2 clinical/ hospital rotation courses during Term 2.
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PHAR4301: Hospital Pharmacy
Clerkship
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PHAR3603: Hospital Pharmacy
Summer Clerkship
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In these courses, students
learn to apply practical clinical and critical thinking skills necessary to
care for a patient.
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The courses are normally
conducted at the Prince of Wales Hospital where clinical teachers conduct
bedside clinical teaching and case discussions of patients admitted to the
General Medicine ward.
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Due to the COVID-19 outbreak,
the course is currently conducted online using Zoom
Preliminary Challenges
Identified
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During a trial period using
Zoom, teachers identified the following challenges:
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Due to insufficient time to
create new cases, teachers had to rely on previous cases which were not
designed for online teaching
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Lack of patient case diversity
reflecting hospital situation
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Lack of student engagement
(particularly during 3-hour long class time)
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Difficulty in assessing
individual student’s knowledge gaps through online platform
Project Objectives
This project aims to
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Enable teachers to create a
more engaging Zoom learning environment through redesigning teaching materials
to utilize the break out room function and poll function of Zoom.
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Introduce a wider range of
eLearning materials that achieves course learning outcomes while illustrating
the diversity of patient cases seen in the general medicine wards of a major
regional hospital in Hong Kong
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Explore innovative teaching
strategies and modes of assessment to identify students’ knowledge gaps
Expected Benefits
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Improve the current online
learning environment to bridge classroom setting with hospital practice setting
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Provide students with a robust
set of more complex patient cases to illustrate the diversity of patient care
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Enable teachers to better
evaluate students’ ability and assess areas of weakness
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Facilitate self-directed
learning among students and encourage life-long learning
