MEGICal Moments at NUS Medicine Educators’ Day 2023 - NUS Medicine

Issue 49
Feb 2024

IN VIVO

By Hazwani Mohamed, Management Assistant Officer, NUS Medicine Dean’s Office (Education)

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and the National University Health System (NUHS) recently held a series of events to celebrate education and our educators. This month-long celebration came to a close on NUS Medicine Educators’ Day, on which eight finalist teams shared ideas with a panel of esteemed judges.

The Medical Education Grand Innovation Challenge (MEGIC) aims to provide a platform for educators and students to come up with creative solutions to enhance medical learning and teaching.

“Advancing health is not possible without new ideas, curiosity and science,” said Professor Chong Yap Seng, Dean of NUS Medicine.

This year’s keynote speaker, Dr Siah Chiew Jiat Rosalind, Undergraduate Programmes Director for clinical education at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at NUS, and a nurse clinician for community and gerontology at Singapore General Hospital, shared about the transformation of nursing education and how Artificial Intelligence (AI), etc., will be playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare.

MEGIC 2021 Special Mention Award winners, Team COMM-petent, shared about what went into creating their project and the challenges they faced. They started off with a problem statement: The medical student curriculum does not teach students how to communicate with people with disabilities. To tackle this problem, the team created the Communications with Persons with Disabilities Workshop to engage people with disabilities as patient educators to teach medical students how to effectively and sensitively communicate with them. Fast forward to today, the workshop has become a regular fixture within the NUS Medicine curriculum. This year’s Medical Education Grand Innovation Challenge (MEGIC) saw an array of presentations including a podcast and a live simulation by the eight finalist teams. They presented their ideas to a panel of attentive judges—Professor Paul John Gallagher, Deputy Head Clinical at NUS department of Pharmacy, Associate Professor Soo Yuen Jien, Director of the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor Seow Teck Keong, Deputy Director of The Centre of Development of Teaching and Learning.

Advancing health is not possible without new ideas, curiosity and science.”

Prof Chong Yap Seng, Dean of NUS Medicine

First Prize

Professor Louis Tong, Mr Benjamin Paik, Mr Bryan Tho Zhe Lun, Mr Maverick Wong Wenhao, Mr Tan Tuan Hao, Dr Loo Jin Liang, Associate Professor Khyber Alam, Associate Professor Kendrik Co Shih

First prize winners Team ReVISUALize won with their idea to teach smartphone ophthalmoscopy as a novel method of fundus examination to healthcare students. With this, they hope to address limitations and confer further benefits of digitisation for both learning and clinical practice.

Team members: Professor Louis Tong, Mr Benjamin Paik, Mr Bryan Tho Zhe Lun, Mr Maverick Wong Wenhao, Mr Tan Tuan Hao, Dr Loo Jin Liang, Associate Professor Khyber Alam, Associate Professor Kendrik Co Shih

Second Prize

Mr Ang Yi-An, Mr Ng Song Peng, Matthew, Mr Ng De Rong, Tony, Dr Chia Jeng Long, Mr Craig Tan Jia Wei, Mr Wong Yee Howe, Dr Clement Chia Luck Khng, Assistant Professor Lorainne Tudor Car, Mr Ahmad Ishqi Jabir, Dr Dinesh Carl Junis Mahendran, Dr James Lee Wai Kit

Team TESLA-G (Telegram Education for Surgical Learning and Application – Gamified) emerged as second prize winners for their gamified, Telegram-delivered, quizzing platform for surgical education of medical students. It will also be a protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial.

Team members: Mr Ang Yi-An, Mr Ng Song Peng, Matthew, Mr Ng De Rong, Tony, Dr Chia Jeng Long, Mr Craig Tan Jia Wei, Mr Wong Yee Howe, Dr Clement Chia Luck Khng, Assistant Professor Lorainne Tudor Car, Mr Ahmad Ishqi Jabir, Dr Dinesh Carl Junis Mahendran, Dr James Lee Wai Kit

Third Prize

Team MasterRAD won the third prize with their idea to master Radiological Anatomy through interactive, competitive and educational gameplay.

Team members: Dr Wynne Chua, Mr Chia Koon Liang, Ms Joanne Hang, Mr Shawn Low, Dr Li Zongchen, Dr Ong Shao Jin, Dr Samuel Lau

Special Mention Award

Dr Serene Goh Si Ning, Ms Clarisse Hing, Mr Elliott Lee Ying Hao, Ms Kathleen Ann Pang, Ms Rachel Goh, Ms Selvie Yeo, Ms Victoria Zheng, Dr Caleb Ng Wei Hao, Dr Ho Wei En, Dr Lydia Tan, Dr Ng Ding Rui, Aubrey, Dr Phoebe Aw, Dr Woon Chang Yi, Dr Zhao Jiashen

Team The Knife Life started a surgery podcast which aims to enhance the learning for medical school undergraduates on surgical topics, prepare for surgical rotations/internships and help students revise prior to their examinations.

Team members: Dr Serene Goh Si Ning, Ms Clarisse Hing, Mr Elliott Lee Ying Hao, Ms Kathleen Ann Pang, Ms Rachel Goh, Ms Selvie Yeo, Ms Victoria Zheng, Dr Caleb Ng Wei Hao, Dr Ho Wei En, Dr Lydia Tan, Dr Ng Ding Rui, Aubrey, Dr Phoebe Aw, Dr Woon Chang Yi, Dr Zhao Jiashen

Best Video Award

Ms Surabhi Riya Vig, Mr John Yap Yin Gwee, Mr Lin Yibin, Mr Mak Hon Keat, Dr Ada Ngo, Dr Chionh Wen Wei, Dr Crystal Soh Harn Wei, Dr Darius Pan Shaw Teng, Adjunct Professor Malcolm Mahadevan

Team HabIT clinched the award with their High-fidelity Virtual Reality (VR) simulation for Augmentation of Basic Cardiac Life Support In First Responder Training in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests (HABIT- OHCA).

Team members: Ms Surabhi Riya Vig, Mr John Yap Yin Gwee, Mr Lin Yibin, Mr Mak Hon Keat, Dr Ada Ngo, Dr Chionh Wen Wei, Dr Crystal Soh Harn Wei, Dr Darius Pan Shaw Teng, Adjunct Professor Malcolm Mahadevan