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Special Sessions

SS5.1 Professionalism and Ethics 10:45 Theatre 2

Professionalism Teaching – from Medical School to the Hospital
Lau CS
Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, Hong Kong
The goal of medical education is to nurture the development of doctors with the professional attributes required for quality HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2018
patient care. It requires the physician to serve the interests of the patient above his or her self-interest. Professionalism
aspires to altruism, accountability, excellence, duty, service, honour, integrity and respect for others.

Cultivating professionalism, which may be dated back to the Code of Hammurabi (2,000 B.C.), is an important aspect of
medical education. Much of this is to do with the high expectation that patients and the society have on the physician, but
professionalism has been found to be associated with improved medical outcomes. Besides, the tenets of professionalism,
focusing on desirable attributes to instil in practitioners, have been purposely devised strategies to re‐invigorate medicine
and increase public credibility.
A medical ethics and professionalism curriculum is most likely to result in sustained changes in reasoning and behaviour
when it is longitudinal, such that early educational interventions are reinforced or advanced by subsequent exposures.
Professionalism teaching begins in the undergraduate years and continues during resident and specialist training and
beyond. It requires institutional leaders to authentically and publicly support such curriculum, with its cognitive base being
taught explicitly. Learning environments and the expertise of faculty members, many of whom should be highly respected
colleagues, should align with the institution’s mission statement and professionalism precepts. Finally, a multitude of teaching
and assessment pedagogies employed with particular emphasis should be placed on learning in the clinical setting, drawing
on real day to day examples.

SS5.2 Professionalism and Ethics 10:45 Theatre 2

Training Strategy and Professional Development of Hong Kong Fire Services Department
Yeung AYK
Fire Services Department, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

The mission of the Hong Kong Fire Services Department (FSD) is to protect life and property from fire and other calamities.
To better fulfil its mission to save those in distress and protect the community, the Department strives for continuous
advancement in its services in the areas of firefighting, rescue, ambulance, mobilising and communication, and fire
protection.
As society develops, fire service personnel encounters more challenging circumstances on all fronts such as conducting
firefighting and rescue operations inside large-scale infrastructure, skyscrapers and underground facilities. To this end, Tuesday, 8 May 2018
the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy (FASA) was commissioned in January 2016 to provide comprehensive and
sophisticated training to our firefighters, personnel of ambulance, mobilising and communications and workshop streams.
FASA covers an area of about 158,000 square metres, and constructed at a cost of HK$ 3.5 billion. FASA marked a new era in
the training development of the Hong Kong Fire Services Department.
To complement the commissioning of FASA, HKFSD also explores the establishment of a training accreditation mechanism
for the knowledge and skills tailor-made for fire and ambulance services in Hong Kong. In moving forward with the
departmental long-term training strategy, HKFSD also establishes a specialised and institutionalised Quality Assurance
mechanism to set out clear and consistent Service Quality Standards and audit criteria, as well as enhancing the quality and
standards of FS members.

It is hoped that the required skills and knowledge imparted to our members could meet the escalating operational and
training needs. Our goal is to train those personnel as top-notch fireman and ambulanceman dedicated to serving the
community and as a world-class exemplar of fire and ambulance training in future.

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