Our ongoing efforts to incorporate new technology in our curricula is also benefiting students by ensuring their training is at the forefront of medicine. The new Technology-Enriched Learning Mezzanine, or Techmezz, opened this year and features advanced interactive tools such as VR headsets and two Anatomage dissection tables. State-of-the-art simulation labs and wards have been introduced in both medicine and nursing, and clinical year MBBS students have each been provided with point-of-care ultrasound devices. At the curriculum level, health technology and biomedicine are gaining importance in all programmes and we see potential to develop new undergraduate majors and minors along these themes. The need for more healthcare entrepreneurs is also on the rise and the BBiomedSc programme has jumped into the fold with the new Innovation Team Project, an alternative capstone that takes students through the process of setting up biomedical technology-based start-ups – something we hope to see more of given the high-level government support for developing Hong Kong and the GBA into an innovation hub. 17
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