Higher Education SPROUT Project

Summary and Highlights of Achievements

In accordance with the mid-term plan of school affairs development (2018-2022) and cooperating with the Higher Education Sprout Plan, MacKay Medical College integrates the necessary and available resources to implement the policy goal of the Ministry of Education to promote the development of higher education in schedule. 

The important achievements and highlights of the first stage (2018-2020) are summarized as follows:

1. In response to the digital age, we actively promote the innovative learning model using E-technology.  We complete lots of digital learning materials in order to strengthen the connection between clinical and theoretica, including  audio-visual materials of eight major physiological systems, CBL teaching plans for various specialties, Moocs courses of nursing specialties, teaching videos of audiology and speech language therapy cases and so on.
2. In order to improve the quality of teaching, we offer digital courses on different E-learning platforms such as Moodle and Power Cam, build an AR anatomy teaching system to strengthen interactive and flipped teaching, and enable innovative teaching modes such as the Zuvio interactive teaching platform to effectively encourage independent and self-study and  to satisfy the teaching requirement of different academic departments.
3. Continue to conduct different workshops for tutor training and creation teaching plan writing to promote PBL(Problem based learning), CBL (Case based learning) and various situational teaching.  The quality of PBL and CBL teaching plans and the ability of tutor have been significantly improved. 
4. Establish an innovative and integrated teaching model of community medicine that combines medicine, nursing and audiology and speech language therapy. Through community services such as rural medical visits, health consultations and hearing screenings, students can improve their practical skills and implement the core value of caring for the disadvantaged groups.
5. Create innovative teaching paradigms based on clinical problems and programming practice writing operations to greatly enhance students' ability to apply biometrics and programming language to clinical research problems and data analysis.
6. Establish a production center for digital teaching materials, a dedicated classroom for active learning and flipped teaching, a nursing situational teaching center, an clinical treatment center for audiology and speech language teaching, etc. The purpose is to optimize teaching software and hardware equipment, to strengthen teaching quality, to implement teaching innovation and greatly to strengthen the teaching effectiveness of "learning by doing".
7. Invite foreign scholars to give lectures in various related fields and to participate in the academy-style teaching. Offer distance courses and workshops such as "Appreciation of British and American Short Stories" and "German Culture" and foreign culture to enhance students' foreign language ability and international perspective.  Encourage students to go to foreign institutions for internships and exchanges to expand their horizons and learning opportunities.  
8. Continue to organize activities such as teacher experience sharing, professional community and teaching growth camps. Subsidize teaching practice projects and teacher training workshops for digital teaching, etc. The purpose is to continuously enhance teachers' professional development and to create innovative teaching research.  
9. Set up a flexible salary system to encourage teachers' adaptive career development and effectively affirm their contributions to teaching and student services.  Continue to implement the mentor system to encourage senior teachers to assist young teachers in their research, teaching and promotion.
10. Implement the college-style learning and counseling ecosystem through the concentric circle model of senior classmate in the school. Improve the counseling and support mechanism for disadvantaged students by integrating various assistance resources to fulfill the responsibilities of equalization of higher education opportunities and social mobility.
11. Complete the certification of information system from BSI international information security certification.   Continue to update school affairs information and establish an IR (institute research) to improve school affairs development, and respond to the expectations of stakeholders and society on the effectiveness of higher education with information transparency.
12. Continuously promote the character cultivation plan, and comprehensively combine the cooperation of external units such as Sanzhi District Office, charity organizations and churches to establish a North Coast youth character cultivation resource platform.
13. Offer general education courses, such as "San Zhi Utopia", "-Local Humanities Topics", and art workshops, etc., to actually participate in the inheritance and promotion of San Zhi's culture, and achieve a diversified development of community inclusiveness and mutual prosperity.