Abstract

Medical education involves understanding the basic sciences and clinical knowledge. Both components are equally important. Although most of the healthcare professional schools use integrated teaching curriculum, students have difficulty trying to link the basic science to the clinical knowledge especially when the courses are taught a few years ago. In addition, professional medical terminology are heavily used that may be difficult for patients to understand. It is important for clinicians to ensure proper and understandable information is given to their patients for better disease management. The design of the current project is to fill the knowledge gap and to provide easy understanding of how one disease is managed from the beginning of understanding of the organ (anatomy and physiology), how the drugs work on body (pharmacology) to clinical management of disease (clinical application and therapeutics) and vice versa. The project also aims to develop the translational inter-professional e-learning platform focusing on geriatric medicine and elderly care in the community particularly utilization of knowledge and enhancement of medical language skills. This e-learning teaching platform will utilize computer simulations and teaching videos to simulate the real-world clinical scenarios. Students can also apply their knowledge in the real geriatric setting via the local and international community elderly outreach programs.