Outstanding Educator Award

“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."


Assoc Prof Erle LIM Chuen Hian

MBBS (Singapore), M Med (Internal Medicine)
Department of Medicine

CURRENT TEACHING PORTFOLIO
  • Assistant Dean for Education (Clinical, Admissions and Student Affairs), Dean's Office

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

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

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

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

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

TEACHING ASPIRATION
To assist in the birthing process of caring, knowledgeable, honest and intellectually curious doctors.

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