Symposium 3

A/Prof Kevin Tan

Director (Education) & Senior Consultant

Department of Neurology

National Neuroscience Institute

Dr Kevin Tan is a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and Associate Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School. He is Lead for the Centre for InterProfessional Healthcare Education (CIPHE), Academic Medical Education Institute, Singhealth Duke-NUS Academic Centre. He completed his Fellowship in Neuroinfectious Disease and Neuroimmunology at Johns Hopkins University (2008) and Master of Science in Health Professions Education at MGH Institute of Health Professions (2016). He is currently Program Director, Neuroimmunology-Neuroinflammation (NI-2) Program (NNI), Education Director (NNI) and Vice Chair (Education), Neuroscience Academic Clinical Program. His main clinical and research interests are CNS inflammatory diseases, immune-mediated neurological syndromes, neurological infections and HIV neurology. His medical education interests are team-based learning, innovations in teaching and assessment, clinical reasoning and interprofessional education.

Session:

Becoming Skilled (Creative Methods for Training / Education Delivery)
12 April 2024, 1315 - 1445hrs, NAK Auditorium

Presenting Title:

Becoming Skilled in Education – How I Learnt by Failing Forward

Faculty development describe activities and programs designed to assist faculty members in developing skills related to the domains of academic medicine, including knowledge and skills related to the roles of teacher and educator, researcher and scholar, and administrator and leader. Faculty development activities can be described along two dimensions: from individual (independent) experiences to group (collective) learning and from informal approaches to more formal ones.

This talk relates my experience of how learning by doing (and making mistakes) and reflection helped me develop as an educator and scholar. The initial challenges and failures in initiatives and projects helped direct how I grew and honed my knowledge and skills in the areas of assessment and education scholarship.

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