PPW Lee, MYW Kwan, MHK Ho, YL Lau

Abstract

Postgraduate training is a process by which trainees make transition from working under supervision to independent practice. Trainees achieve professional advancement through everyday training at the workplace, learning at organised educational activities and mentoring from supervisors. In this paper, we present our experience in organising a postgraduate study day for the Paediatric Immunology and Infectious Diseases (PIID) subspecialty. Principles of adult learning were applied to enable interactive, group-based collaborative learning through trainee-led case discussions and interactive seminar. The Faculty provided feedback to the trainees by objective scoring of their performance. Evaluation from the trainees on the PIID Study Day was positive and self-perception on knowledge in the diagnosis, pathogenesis, investigations and management on infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts and primary immunodeficiency syndromes increased after the event. The success of this form of postgraduate training activity depends on learners' motivations, the educators' experience and perspectives, and the learning environment.

研究生的培訓是使受訓者從監督下工作到獨立完成過程，受訓者在工作地點通過日常工作、有系統的教學活動和導師的指導獲得了專業提升。本篇文章介紹了兒童免疫和傳染病的亞專科研究生一天的學習內容及經驗。運用了成人學習的原則，比如互動、導師引導的共同案例小組討論和互動研討會，教師通過客觀評分予以受訓者評估。受訓者對認同兒童免疫與傳染病學習日的評價，事後對免疫低下患者感染的診斷、發病機制、研究、管理和原發性免疫缺陷病的認知提高了。這種形式的研究生培訓的成功取決於學習者的動機、導師的經驗和視野以及學習環境。