FEATURE EDUCATION: Learning through Change For healthcare educators, the future has never looked more exciting. ‘With technological developments and changing societal expectations, our future graduates will need to be more versatile than the graduates this year and in past decades. The tools they use will be different, what patients want will be different, the whole landscape will be different,’ said Professor Gilberto Leung Ka-kit, Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning). For HKUMed, that means opportunity. The Faculty has thrown itself into the task of embracing future opportunities, and by doing so, will endeavour to lead, not to follow. The EdTech has recently been established to focus on education technology, led by Assistant Dean (Education Innovations) Professor Gary Lau Kui-kai. (Professor Leung is also supported by nine other Assistant Deans and one Senior Advisor, see p.11). For example, it has developed an AI platform where students can converse with a virtual patient and practice essential skills such as taking a medical history. ‘We are not trying to replace real patient encounters, but to take full advantages of these new tools, which are easier to standardise and we can conduct assessments in a more objective fashion,’ Professor Leung explained. Developments in AI are also accelerated by a HK$30 million donation from Mr Li Ka-shing last year to ramp up AI in teaching and learning, and which was matched by a HK$30 million allocation from the Faculty. ↑Professor Gilberto Leung Ka-kit (seated, centre) and the Teaching & Learning sub-deanery (scan the QR code below for the full list) 10
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