Abstract

Due the risk of a major outbreak of new chest infection in Hong Kong, all face-to-face teaching has been suspended. While tutorial and lectures can be effectively delivered by zoom, medical students are deprived of clinical contact with real patients. Students are no longer able to enter the wards and clerk patients. Since patients are the best teachers of all, lack of clinical contact will adversely affect the learning of medical students. In order to bridge the gap, we suppose to produce a series of teaching videos for the psychiatry module. 

We proposed, based on real patient records, produce nine teaching videos. The objectives of these videos is to demonstrate interviewing skills and symptoms of common psychiatric diseases. All academic teachers will participate in this project. They will select topics, prepare scripts and train patients and student helpers for video shooting. The actual filming will be conducted by the Audio-Visual Division of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUAV). CUAV will also perform post-shooting editing, such as adding chapters and captions. 

The final product of the project, nine teaching videos, will be available for students to view, even when face-to-face teaching is resumed. Sharing session will be held to share our experiences to all teachers of the Faculty of Medicine. This project also serve as a pilot of establishing a large video library for psychiatry module.