SMHC-Session-Medical-Humanities-Within-Undergraduate-Medical-Curricula

Medical Humanities Within Undergraduate Medical Curricula - Perspectives From Singapore, Taiwan And Hong Kong

Date: 29 October, Tuesday| Time: 13:30 - 14:45 | Venue: Ngee Ann Kongsi (NAK) Auditorium, Academia, SGH

Speakers: Dr Ong Eng Koon, Assoc Prof Harry Wu, Dr Pauline Luk

Programme Details:

This is a combined symposium where the audience will hear from 3 educators from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan on their experience in employing medical humanities within medical education.

Dr Pauline Luk from Hong Kong University will share about how the curriculum aims to cultivate doctors who engage with patients from a position of awareness of their own humanity. She will also touch on strategic planning, challenges, and successes of the curriculum, including changes to meet evolving expectations and learning patterns of medical students in the University of Hong Kong. Recent projects, such as student-led medical humanities pathways and community engagement in education development, will be highlighted. The benefits of incorporating community perspectives into the curriculum through community partnerships will also be discussed..

Dr Ong Eng Koon will provide an overview of the various medical humanities education programmes in Singapore and discuss their strengths, challenges and potential for future development.

Dr Harry Wu from National Cheng Kung University will present examples of his attempts to establish links between critical humanities concerns and the needs of healthcare professional education in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where he had been the lead for medical humanities initiatives. He will also discuss strategies for engaging with students and faculty to enhance the teaching and learning of medical humanities in diverse institutional contexts.

There will be an opportunity to engage in a panel discussion with the speakers at the end of their presentations.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Gain an understanding of the strategic planning, challenges, and successes of the medical humanitiesn within medical education medical curriculum.

2. Learn how programmes and curriculum may be designed to meet the changing needs of students and the community.

3. Gain insights into signature projects that cultivate professionalism and empathy in medical students, including student-led medical humanities pathways
and community partnerships.

Target Audience: All are welcomed. No prior experience or prerequisite is needed.

Prof Ivy Ng

SingHealth GCEO