State of the Faculty Address 2020

8 Teaching and Learning COVID-19 has upended teaching and learning although HKUMed’s ongoing curricular modernisation efforts have prepared us better than most in weathering the disruption. I am pleased to report that there has been a high level of student satisfaction with e-learning videos, online quizzes and generally the stepped-up interactivity of the MBBS preclinical curriculum that has been undergoing “modernisation”. This has now become most useful as we have necessarily relied on virtual delivery since the beginning of the pandemic. All didactic undergraduate teaching sessions, whether delivered face-to-face or virtually, are now professionally edited and made available online. To facilitate teachers’ preparation of digital materials, we have offered training and technical support through the Multimedia Learning Resource Centre. The flagship MBBS Enrichment Year has been substantially affected by COVID-19. For M23, those who were overseas undertaking intercalated studies, research attachments or humanitarian service had to return in March. Given the University- wide moratorium on all outbound exchange during the current semester, Dr George Tipoe and his team successfully assisted M24 students in identifying local alternatives. Hopefully students will be able to resume overseas and mainland study programmes in the coming semester, COVID-19 willing of course.