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The following are my most recent activities (in the past 18 months) and pending new activities (within next 12 months):
Since mid October 2005, I have come to Taichung, Taiwan and joined China Medical University. I am housed in the Department of Pharamcology, School opf Medicine. Administratively,I am in charge of the Center for Faculty Development (CFD) and the Center for International Affairs (CIA).
Recent activities:
***10/2, 10/3 - Visit to Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Company, Osaka to deliver a lecture on "Vascular relaxant effect of luobuma: endothelium-dependent and long-lasting".
***10/4 - Visit to the School of Medicine, Kinki University, Osaka-Sayama to deliver a lecture on "Current new development of PBL curriculum in medical education at McMaster University"
***10/6 - Visit to Tzu-Chi University. College of Life Sciences - symposium on Vascular structure and function.
***10/8-10/10 - Shanghai. Inaugural Conference of the Asian Society for Vascular Biology.
***10/11, 10/12 - Shanghai Pharmacological Society - PBL workshop on medical pharmacology.
***10/15 Officially joined China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan
***11/28, 11/29 - World Lingnan Alumni Reunion Assembly in Hong Kong.
***12/3, 12/4 - Cross-straits Symposium on Cardiovascular Sciences.
***12/21-24 - Conference: Harmonization of Tranditional and Western Medicine, RMIT University, Melborne, Australia.
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***2/17-18 Physiology Symposium Hong Kong 2006. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
***2/19-21 3rd Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference at the National University of Singapore and research Seminar at the Department of Pharmacology, NUS.
A PBL lecture (PBL and Clinical Training) at Nanyang Polytechnic School of Health Sciences, Singapore.
***3/21, 27-28 - Academic exchange visits to University of Toronto, Broack University and Southern California University of Health Sceinces, CA, USA.
++++++++++++++++++ Coming events +++++++++++++++++
5/20-23 Visiting ShanDong University (Jinan, China) and offering an introductory PBL workshop.
5/24,25 Medical Conference sponsored by International Huaxia Medicine Society at Jining, Shandong, China.
5/26-28 6th Asia Pacific PBL conference at Tokyo organized by Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo.
5/29,30 Academic visit to Bunkyo Medical College and Showa University hosted by Prof. Y. Sakai.
7/6 Invited lecture for the Symposium for Pharmacology Education and in scientific session at IUPHAR2006 in Beijing.
October, 2006 - Organizer for a Symposium on Physiology Education at 6th FAOPS2006 in Korea.
November, 2006 - Invited lecture in 5th Asia Pacific Conference on PBL in Health Sciences in Indonesia. |
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| 2nd International Eucommia Symposium | | Held in Yangling (60 min away from Xi'an)on August 6-8, 2005. About 80 participants including 35 from Japan. |
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| PBL Workshop participants of the Stomatology Faculty at Wuhan University (04/2005) | | Stomatology at Wuhan University is said to be the first insititute carrying out PBL instructions in China. Dr. Song GT from this institute spent 2 sabbatical months with me and my tutoroial group at McMaster University. We co-authored a paper in Teaching and learning in medicine. |
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| PBL workshop at the National Taiwan University School of Medicine | | How to play the role as a tutor in a PBL tutorial (05/01/2005). I also ran a PBL problem constuction workshop. The teachers were given a theme "A baby died after medicaql treatment as a result of medical error". They design a scenario as a trigger for learning. I also delivered a lecture on "Life-long learning in clinical training" (08/02/2005) |
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| PBL workshop at Zhong-Shan University Medical School, Gunagzhou, China | | Workshop run by Professor Lee MC of Zhong-Shan Medical University (Taiwan), Professor Tony MacKnight of Otago University (New Zealand)and myself (04-18-2005). The Dean of Medicine has visited McMaster University 2 yeares ago. |
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| Prof. Yen Ruifang's lecture | | The development of heat-sensitive Eucommia gel presented by Prof. Yen (Beijing)caught a lot of attention (for its commercial applicaton) 8/7/2005. |
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| Dinner wsith Professor Guan YY, Guangzhou (04-20-2005) | | Prof.Guan is the former Dean of Medical Faculty and a dear friend, who rekindled my interests in studying Chinese herbal medicine and he spent a number of years working with me at McMaster University in the mid 80s. |
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| Eating snake steak in Guangzhou, China (4/23/2005) | | Eating the "snake steak" would take courage for many, but for a Cantonese, well, it is quite natural. |
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| Traditional tea party ceremony at Taichung, Taiwan (04-26-2006) | |
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| Lecture on student assessment in the admission process at the National Taiwan University Hospital (05/05/2005) | | The Director of the NTU hospital, Professor Lin FY, raised quentions after the lecture. |
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| The poster on the lecture I offered at the NTUH (05/05/2005) | | The medical schools or hospitals need to first define the competency of their graduates or practicing physicians and then admit the appropriate individuals accordingly. Imposrtnat question to think about: Do you have an admission policy which is consistent with your educational mission? Do you practice what you preach? |
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| PBL workshop at UERMMMC, Quezon, Philippines: small group activity (05-07-2005) | | Participants were divided into 4 groups of 10-12 members. Each group was given a task to accomplish in one hour using PBL tutorial format. |
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