Champions at the 4th Symposium on Redesigning Student Learning Experience in Higher Education: Co-creating the future of Education

Congratulations to Dr KHONG Mei Li and students CHAN Hei Man Winson, NG Ka Yu Justin and LEE Ka Ching, Monica in the Students as Co-Designers – Formalising Student-Educator Partnerships in Curriculum and Pedagogy Co-Creation team for winning first prize of Curriculum Design/Development category at the 4th Symposium on Redesigning Student Learning Experience in Higher Education: Co-creating the future of Education held in Hong Kong Baptist University on the 24 February 2024.

The 4th Symposium on Redesigning Student Learning Experience in Higher Education is organised by HERDSA Hong Kong Branch, to advance student partnership initiatives in local universities. Collaborating with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University and other local universities, RSLEIHE 2023 aims to empower students and staff for more productive partnership and co-creating curriculum. Innovative pedagogical models, a student partner hub, an evaluation framework, and professional development activities will be developed. We will establish a community of practice to share experience and effective practice.

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Congrats to the five winners of the Poon Li Wai Hing Award for Student in Medical Education

The award aims to encourage initiatives in the application of teaching and technologies to promote the active engagement of students in teaching and curriculum development activities.

“I strongly believe in the power of student-educator partnerships and the significant impact it can have on curriculum design,” said Winson Chan (MBBS IV), who received the prize this month. Winson, a co-investigator in the project “Students as Co-Designers,” has taken the lead in developing pharmacological tables and flashcards to modernise the MBBS curriculum.

Separately, awardee Jing Chen (MBBS IV) was recognised for developing “It’s Not Just: Sexual Crimes,” a medical humanities pathway designed for MBBS II students to address and combat sexual misconduct in clinical and academic medicine. The project aims to create a more supportive environment for victims and to foster open and honest conversations in the field of medicine.

“I am dedicated to improving teaching and learning at HKUMed by influencing students to become competent educators,” said John Park (MBBS IV), who won the prize for his work in near-peer teaching with a particular emphasis on students from diverse backgrounds.

Organisers of the Pre-clinical and Clinical Near-Peer Teaching Programme, Teenie Wong (MBBS IV) and Helen Xiao (MBBS IV) received the award for their initiative that has delivered small group Zoom tutorials to more than 300 pre-clinical students. “We have set out to enhance formal teaching, promote knowledge integration, and foster collaboration between junior and senior students at HKUMed,” said Teenie. Co-organiser Helen added that the impact of the programme goes beyond mere knowledge transfer, and that she hopes the project will continue to grow at HKUMed and HKU more broadly.

Once again, congratulations to the five awardees for their outstanding contributions to medical education. Keep up the fantastic work!

Poon Li Wai Hing Award for Student in Medical Education 2023

Congratulations to the inaugural winners of the Poon Li Wai Hing Award for Student in Medical Education 2023:

·         CHAN Hei Man Winson, MBBS Year IV

·         FOK Jing Chen, MBBS Year V

·         PARK Yeh Joon, MBBS Year IV

·         WONG Kwan Tung Teenie, MBBS Year VI

·         XIAO Ailin, MBBS Year V

The Poon Li Wai Hing Award for Student in Medical Education was established in October 2023 to encourage initiatives and recognise contributions in the application of pedagogical and technological innovations and to promote active engagement of students in teaching and curriculum development activities under the Student in Medical and Health Sciences Education (SIMHSE ) scheme at the Medical Faculty. The awardees have made remarkable contributions towards SIMHSE through their creative and innovative ideas, sustained engagement and high-quality work, thus making an impact on the teaching and learning at the Faculty.

Congratulations again to the awardees of the Poon Li Wai Hing Award for Student in Medical Education 2023.