Healthcare Education and Simulation Workshop
The School organised the two-day Healthcare Education and Simulation Workshop on August 5 and 6 to provide healthcare practitioners and educators from around the region with the latest knowledge and skills related to healthcare and simulation-based learning and education.
About 70 participants attended from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and other countries. They were also given a platform to discuss the developments in simulation-based learning; the use of interprofessional simulation and integrated scenarios; the future of simulationbased education in healthcare; the incorporation of simulation into a large classroom setting; simulation debriefing; and other pertinent issues.
The speakers at the workshop included:
- Professor John M O'Donnell, Professor and Chair, Department of Nurse Anesthesia; Director, Nurse Anesthesia Program; Associate Director, WISER; School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh
- Professor C Donald Combs, Vice President and Dean, School of Health Professions, Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Dr Thomas Lin, CEO, Center for Education in Medical Simulation, Taipei Medical University; Director, Clinical Skill Center, Taipei Wanfang Hospital
- Dr Veronica Lam, Senior Lecturer, HKU School of Nursing
- And three Lecturers from the HKU School of Nursing: Dr John Fung, Ms Michelle Pang and Dr Cecilia Kong.