Season 3
medical Education
Doctor in Latin comes from the root word Teacher. With three medical schools, teaching is a greater responsibility that we must bear. In this series, we talk to doctor-teachers, familiar names who have taught generations of doctors, about how they started teaching, how teaching has changed, and why they continue to teach. Our doctor-teachers inspire us to push for excellence, even if it is much easier to settle, through their journeys.
Season Episodes
In this episode, Dr Chen Zhi Xiong, deputy education and programme director at the department of physiology at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine shares his experience going into and developing medical education with us. We ask about Dr Chen’s work life balance and how that helps him as an educator. Finally, we discuss the implications of employing a reward system in a hypercompetitive setting, and what could be done to ease the arising tensions, particularly from a human sciences perspective.
In the continuation of our two-part episode, we speak with Dr Chen Zhi Xiong about the role medical humanities can play in bettering medical education. Linking this to current health programs at NUS we speak at length about developing medical exchange programmes to improve their effectiveness. Dr Chen shares his view on global health programs and the importance of teaching men to fish rather than simply providing the fish.
Professor Joseph Sung, Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in NTU, has spent his lifetime in medicine. From the frontlines of the SARS pandemic, to mediating the student protests in Hong Kong, Professor Sung shares about how these experiences have shaped his perception of medicine and changed his attitudes towards leadership and life, and in doing so how it has helped him to lead a fulfilling life.
Prof Joseph Sung, Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in NTU, discusses how medical education should adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this podcast, Prof. Sung explains how communications are key to integrating AI with clinical practice. Drawing from his experience as the previous Vice Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he talks about the values that higher education should help instill in young adults. Lastly, he talks about how both schools and students can rethink the structure of medical education in the face of pandemic-related restrictions.
In this episode, we invite Associate Professor Nga Min En from NUS Medicine to speak with us about Pathweb, an interactive Pathology teaching resource meant for students of medicine and the medical sciences. We explore her journey in creating the resource, from her initial motivations to developing and expanding the project onto various platforms. We discuss the importance of feedback in fuelling improvement and its role in evaluating success, as well as maintaining individual goals in relation to measuring success.
We talk to Dr Terence Huey, Senior Consultant in Hepatobiliary surgery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and Programme Director of the National Healthcare Group General Surgery Residency programme about changes in clinical culture since he was a student, the necessity of resilience, his philosophy of what makes a good surgeon and how they all influence the evolution of postgraduate surgical education.
In this episode, Dr Hakim Wee, who has worked in Afghanistan with Afghan Peace Volunteers for close to 20 years shares the meaning behind his name ‘Hakim’ and his journey from running a private medical practice in Singapore to working along the Afghan-Pakistan border. We ask about his biggest takeaways and what keeps him going in the face of endless destruction.
In the continuation of our two-part episode, Dr Hakim shares more about why human health encompasses more than just physical conditions and how the loneliness epidemic highlights the importance of prioritising intentional connections.
Professor Stefano Harney, who has held teaching positions at the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business and numerous international institutions, talks about our understanding and measurement of intelligence, and how this might affect the effectiveness of our education system. We touch on educator’s roles in fostering creativity and critical thinking, and the way authority might affect our abilities in encouraging creative voices. Finally, we explore the potential benefits of incorporating creative learning into medical education in Singapore.
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