The Client
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been consistently ranked as one of the world’s top universities. NUS is the oldest institute of higher education in Singapore. Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine was established in 1905 to educate and train medical professionals for Singapore. it is currently a leading medical educational and research institution in Asia.
In 2015, Susan, ECI’s Founder was commissioned by Health Promotion Board (Singapore) to conduct a 4-hour capability building workshop on motivational interviewing skills for a group of doctors. At the end of the workshop, two of the doctors who are tutors at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Division of Family Medicine approached Susan and invited her to join their team to teach motivational interviewing skills at NUS.
What Did Susan Deliver?
To-date, Susan has been teaching motivational interviewing skills to different cohorts of Year Three medical students. Over the years, Susan partnered and worked closely with the Education Director to review and redesign the lesson plan and learning activities to make learning the skills more interactive, fun and relevant for the students, even redesigning it to a virtual class and simulated training in face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Stressing the importance of the use of the motivational interviewing skill in the family medicine setting, both the Education Director and Susan agreed that the module should be as important as other modules, hence, they worked together to create a competency checklist to assess the competency of the students in applying the skills in a health coaching conversation with the simulated patient.