Leadership
Teaching & Learning Sub-Deanery

Describe your role

I oversee and advise the Deanery on all undergraduate programmes from admissions through curriculum design, pedagogy, assessment and student affairs.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role?

In this role, I am responsible for innovation, development and quality assurance in undergraduate teaching and learning activities.

What's your vision in this new position?

My vision is for HKUMed to be a world-leading centre for medical and health sciences education with fit-for-purpose curriculum design and a readiness to embrace technologies in medical education and healthcare sciences.

Our goal is to prepare our students to become tomorrow's teachers. In our professions, one person can only treat so many patients but if you can teach 10 or 100 people then your impact is amplified. Our Students in Medical Education programme fosters this culture by inviting our students to help improve our teaching and in turn learn to teach their juniors.

We want everyone graduating from HKUMed to see teaching as integral to their profession, just like knowing how to take a pulse.

Describe your role

I support new initiatives in teaching and learning from new degree programmes to joint degrees along with collaborations with other faculties and universities.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role?

My role involves developing our connections outwards with partners beyond the Faculty, particularly working with other faculties. I also help to build collaborations with other universities, such as to establish and oversee joint degree programmes.

Additionally, I support all the other Assistant Deans with curricula for all the programmes, such as how artificial technology and other technologies can be integrated into the curriculum.

My role is to be at the forefront of change in degrees at a strategic level.

What's your vision in this new position?

For HKUMed to be student-focused, to give learners more choices, more ways to connect with their interests, more ways for them to grow professionally and more ways for students to develop their interdisciplinary learning and their communication. And to support more ways for students to develop their leadership.

Describe your role

I look after admissions into our Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programme. 

What are your primary responsibilities in this role? 

My responsibility is to tell potential applicants about what we're looking for in our candidates, to explain our curriculum and how it is unique not just in Hong Kong but around the world. This involves going out and talking to secondary school students and enlarging the pool of potential candidates who want to join HKUMed.

I also tell them about the unique features of our medical curriculum. One major aspect is that we have an advanced technology-based, problems-based and systems-based teaching and learning style. We don't do didactic learning or spoon-feeding, we want them to be able to think and develop skills for life-long learning.

What's your vision in this new position?

My vision is to bring students who have not traditionally picked HKUMed as their first choice into our community and our Faculty and to tell them about the advantages of studying with us. Both what we can offer them and what they can offer us.

Describe your role

Inviting the promising younger generation to join the HKUMed family and matching them to our world-class undergraduate programmes.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role? 

My role is to provide leadership to a very passionate team overseeing undergraduate admissions with a focus on six of our seven programmes. 

As part of this, I will proactively engage in outreach activities to reach stakeholders, such as Hong Kong and overseas high schools, to identify and target potential students.

What's your vision in this new position?

The ultimate goal is to attract a diverse and talented group of students to HKUMed and to create a student body that is engaged, motivated and successful in their academic and personal endeavours throughout their course of study.

Describe your role

In my role, I will be working with Departments and Schools within our Faculty as well as other faculties to develop innovative and fun programmes in health sciences education. That includes inserting more innovation into our teaching and learning.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role? 

My responsibilities include liaising with programme directors to see how we can constantly innovate the existing programmes and develop new programmes to incorporate multidisciplinary input and expertise.

Beyond the medical sphere, I will call on expert colleagues to examine how we can incorporate areas such as computer science, artificial intelligence and engineering into our programmes. 

And to engage with our Departments and Schools to see how the Sub-Deanery can support their teaching and learning initiatives.

What's your vision in this new position?

I will explore new and effective ways to communicate ideas to students and empower students to take those concepts to the next level with the help of current and future technology.

Describe your role

I look after medical education - the curriculum that defines what medical students will need to learn and know to practise as a clinician.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role? 

I will enable our revamped curriculum for medical students. This involves enhancing the clinical learning environment while teaching the core curriculum necessary to practise medicine. 

We need to be able to accommodate the latest trends in healthcare. There are increasing challenges, societal changes, changes in population demographics in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area. So we hope our curriculum will be very dynamic and will prepare students to practise in the clinical settings of the future.

What's your vision in this new position?

To help students have a pleasant learning journey and ensure the clinical learning environment is somewhere they can thrive and connect with people. With the rapid development of technology in healthcare, we hope to give students the core knowledge and the versatility to apply these new technologies in different clinical contexts.

Describe your role

I am responsible for the development, integration and promotion of innovative education technologies within teaching and learning activities at HKUMed.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role?

I oversee the development and integration of innovative education technologies into teaching and learning activities. This involves enhancing and modernising teaching and learning approaches through close partnerships between students and educators.

My role includes promoting innovation and excellence in medical and health sciences education to prepare future-ready graduates for the evolving challenges and opportunities in healthcare.

What's your vision in this new position?

By developing and adopting education innovations into various teaching and learning activities, I hope to empower our students by improving their learning experiences and also prepare them for future challenges and opportunities in healthcare.

Describe your role

I look after the non-academic aspects of development from a medical student into a doctor, including professionalism and internship affairs.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role?

I have the responsibility of meeting with and instructing students who may have stepped outside of bounds of acceptable behaviour.

For interns, I am responsible for liaising with the Hospital Authority to discuss and coordinate various aspects of internship training, including allocation of job placements, helping with the transition from medical students to interns and dealing with any problems that interns may experience during their training.

What's your vision in this new position?

My vision for this tenure is to undertake an in-depth review and "renovation" of internship training to align the learning outcomes along the curriculum continuum from assistant interns, pre-interns and through to interns. I want to make the assessment process more instructional and consistent across the different clusters and hospitals and to communicate this vision to the different internship supervisors. I hope this will make internships more fruitful and enjoyable. 

Describe your role

My focus is looking after student discipline issues in our health sciences undergraduate programmes.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role?

For our programmes with a professional body, such as nursing, my primary responsibility is to make sure our students and also our learning environment are capable of maintaining a high level of fitness to practise.

Healthcare professionals have a lot of responsibility and autonomy, so our role is to instil these high standards while they are still students.

I work closely with Programme Directors to identify any learners who are having difficulties. Fitness to practise relates to student well-being and the curriculum, so I work with the respective Assistant Deans to address any issues more comprehensively.

What's your vision in this new position?

My vision is to do more preventive work. I would like to set up plans to help students understand professional conduct, professional behaviour and professional attitude in a comprehensive manner and at every step of the way. 

Describe your role

To support medical and health sciences students' wellbeing individually and collectively.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role? 

I oversee the student wellness team counselling service to ensure timely access and to prioritise the right areas. I advise on how we might approach difficult or complex cases and also provide some individual counselling to students on an as-needed basis.

My remit includes engaging with student societies, community partners and other members of the Faculty whenever there are events relating to wellbeing.

I also ensure the Faculty's wellness strategy aligns with the University's broader policies while focusing on the specific needs of our students. 

What's your vision in this new position? 

My vision is to help develop and maintain a culture of wellness where it becomes the norm and students can thrive and meet their potential. 

Describe your role

I ensure students are well and are engaged with the Faculty and their programme so that they enjoy their learning.

What are your primary responsibilities in this role?

I focus on academic advising. We try to make sure students have a supportive environment and are aware of the resources available in the Faculty to facilitate their transition from secondary school to university education.

I work to enrich their learning environment and learning experiences and to make sure they can enjoy non-academic activities and campus life in addition to just studying.

What's your vision in this new position?

Learning how to take good care of yourself in the face of life's challenges is one of the most beneficial skills I want to help students acquire. They are well now, but I want them to learn how to be well. If they can learn to cope with their difficulties then they will be in a better position to help others to deal with their difficulties when they become medical professionals. 

Describe your role

To promote good mental health practices through more on-campus engagement to ensure our students are healthy and engaged. 

What are your primary responsibilities in this role? 

My role focuses on student engagement, which includes health-promoting events along with on-campus and online activities.

The students we worry about in terms of mental well-being and academic standards are usually the unengaged students, students who are not coming to campus and students who don't have a lot of friends.

We want students to have the opportunity to ask for help and know they have support around them.

What's your vision in this new position?

My vision is to create a more student-centred campus where students can see the campus as a place they want to be and are happy. And that teachers are easily accessible and engaged. Somewhere students can learn to be the best version of themselves.