Enriching Experience A prime area where we are going above and beyond is in education. As you will all have experienced, an education at HKUMed is not only about building skills and knowledge. We aim to provide enrichment opportunities to all students so they can gain deeper insights about themselves, their chosen professions and society in general. This will make them better professionals and better people. We first embedded enrichment experiences in the MBBS curriculum – effectively carving out time for students to explore other disciplines, spend time in other parts of the world, develop their research skills and/or serve the community – and this has proven to be very successful. Over the past couple of years, several students who pursued an MRes in their Enrichment Year had their research published. This year, we added a Distinguished MedScholar track, which admitted 60 outstanding students who will receive intensive research training in their Enrichment Year, with a view towards PhD studies after they complete their MBBS. At the same time, enrichment experiences are being rolled out across almost all our other programmes. Nursing has a Life Enrichment Learning Programme that offers opportunities for exchanges to top universities overseas, as well as service activities, research attachments and more. Similarly, Pharmacy’s Enrichment modules give students opportunities for overseas exchanges, while its experiential education programme takes students into a wide variety of settings, from clinics to hospitals to industry. Biomedical Sciences took students on an educational trip to Singapore early this year and has launched a new entrepreneurship capstone course that provides hands-on experience in the world of startups. Students from the Global Health Development programme spend six months being mentored by leading organisations, such as UN agencies, in places such as Jakarta in Indonesia, Phnom Penh in Cambodia and Sao Tome in Africa. To name a small selection of the opportunities offered to our students. The interesting thing is this: enrichment is not a one-way provision. The Faculty recognises that our students can also enrich us and our curriculum, especially in this age of rapid technological change. We therefore have taken steps to establish our students as partners as we move down new, untrodden paths. 6
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