Experiential learning is the key to success for medical students to learning clinical medicine. However, didactic lectures and bedside teaching, traditional teaching methods commonly used in clinical medicine, can provide only limited chance for the students to experience clinical challenges. Some clinical skills/knowledge are particularly difficult to be experienced by the students: teamwork in crisis, conducting focused examination, delivering bad news, obtaining informed consent conversation, and making decision based on the clinical findings and investigation result.
A series of flipped classroom teaching using e-learning platform have been developed for the clinical year medicine students based on the above topics identified by a group of clinical teachers from different specialties in the Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The key concepts and expected difficulties in flipping the classroom will be clarified in the talk using the production of our work as examples.
