Most Innovative Teacher

Mr Samson Wong Ki-sum, an assistant lecturer in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, was the inaugural winner of the ‘Most Innovative Teacher of the Year’ in the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia 2025, for his innovation in grief literacy education. Mr Wong uses an immersive virtual reality game, together with a mini-lecture and two debriefing sessions, to deepen second year MBBS students’ understanding of anticipatory grief in family members of dying patients. Mr Wong’s unique pedagogy was published in the journal Medical Education.

Original source: HKU Annual Report 2025  https://annualreport.hku.hk/2025/