Abstract

The project is designed to enhance the capability of the Faculty of Medicine to develop innovative flipped classroom teaching, building on the experience of Acute Care and other flipped classroom teaching.

Our flipped classroom approach will use Internet and smartphone app eLearning, based on interactive tutorials, videos and animations, to replace didactic teaching. This will free teachers to concentrate on high-value activities such as guiding student’s experiential learning and small group tutorials.

Flipped classroom modules will be developed to teach medical students Microbiology, Surgery and Paediatrics. These specialties were chosen because, when combined with existing flipped classroom courses, experience will be developed in teaching both laboratory and clinical medicine to students with different levels of maturity.

We will draw on the experience of teachers with expertise in developing successful flipped classroom courses and work with content experts to develop new flipped classroom courses thereby improving the learning experience and environment for students while disseminating expertise in flipped classrooms to a larger pool of teachers within the Faculty.

To further enhance dissemination of expertise, two workshops will be held for CUHK teachers on the Development of Flipped Classroom Teaching and the results of our project will be presented in the Teaching and Learning Expo, departmental meetings, international conferences and a scientific journal.