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| “I have come to academia relatively late in life. I had never thought of myself as a ‘brainiac’. Over the years, however, I have realised two things that made me decide on a career as a clinician-scholar/teacher: Firstly, one does not need to be a genius to teach well. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I am a pretty good teacher.” |
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OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AWARD |
| Assoc Prof Erle LIM Chuen Hian |
MBBS (Singapore), M Med (Internal Medicine)
Department of Medicine |
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| CURRENT TEACHING PORTFOLIO |
- Assistant Dean for Education (Clinical, Admissions and Student Affairs), Dean’s Office
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| TEACHING ACHIEVEMENTS |
- Mentoring doctors through the Membership of the Royal
College of Physicians (MRCP) and Masters in Internal
Medicine examinations for the last decade
- Use of multimedia in medical education
- Computer-based pedagogy: innovated the online
modified essay question examination and the neurologic
localisation game
- Started the Neurologic localisation course for physicians
- Developed the Core Skills Module for medical undergraduates
- Helped to set up the SimMan and MicroSim modules for
skills-based emergency training
- Overseeing the Student Internship Programme
- Researching and publishing on pedagogic techniques
and innovations
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| TEACHING STRENGTHS |
- Use of multimedia in medical education
- Developed digital video database of clinical vignettes for
teaching purposes
- Stressing the importance of observational skills and
teaching students to “piece the puzzle” during clinical/
bedside tutorials
- Ability to simplify a topic and teach “as one would want
to learn it”
- Equipping medical students with the basic tools to learn
on their own
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| PUBLICATION CREDITS |
- Published more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed international
journals on neurology and movement disorders
- Published 15 articles on medical education and
pedagogy techniques
- Co-wrote textbook on The Clinical Examination in PACES,
a guide to the “short case” examination for undergraduate
and postgraduate (PACES) examination
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| INTERNATIONAL STANDING |
- Invited regional and international lecturer (movement
disorders, neurology and medical education)
- Reviewer for international journals on general medicine,
neurology and medical education
- Member, editorial board of Annals, Academy of Medicine,
Singapore
- Member, International Liaison Committee, Movement
Disorders Society
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| AWARDS AND ACCOLADES |
- Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2005/6 and 2006/7
- Annual Teaching Excellence Award, 2005/6
- David Horrobin Prize for Medical Theory 2007
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| TEACHING ASPIRATION |
- To assist in the birthing process of caring, knowledgeable,
honest and intellectually curious doctors.
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