Visualization of Clinical Psychiatry: Development of a Series of Annotated Online Teaching Videos on Mental State Examination
Principal Supervisors

Professor WONG Wing Ho Oscar (Department of Psychiatry)

Duration

1 year

Approved Budget

HK $98,520

 
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Abstract

Mental state examination is a set of indispensable skills to assess patients with psychiatric needs, and which is chiefly acquired in the CUHK MBChB Year 5 Psychiatry Module through lectures, readings, and bedside teaching. While the former two provide the fundamental background knowledge, visualization through observing actual patients is vital in the learning process, as mental state is multi-dimensional and highly dynamic in nature. 

Bedside teaching is the linkage between book knowledge and development of skills in conducting mental state examination. Yet considering the low teacher:student ratio (typically 1:4-6), relying on bedside teaching as the only bridge is not economical and sustainable, especially under the context of increasing number (approaching 250/year) of medical students. The situation was made worse with the COVID-19, where exposure of medical students to patients, especially during the acute phase with the most disturbed mental condition, was greatly hampered. 

The Department of Psychiatry owns a collection of video-recordings (>500GB of >3000 videos) of consented real patients for teaching purpose since the 1990s. The videos captured a diversified range of mental conditions and could be an ideal visualization tool complementary to bedside teaching. Systematic utilization of the collection had not been feasible in the past due to lack of explanatory notes and annotations. The current project aims at (1) Stratifying the video into categories of mental conditions; (2) Augmenting selected illustrative videos with self-explanatory annotations, voice-over and PowerPoint slides to serve as core-curriculum teaching materials in the format of online teaching videos with a broad coverage of students.