News Express: UM organises health sciences workshop to enhance secondary school teachers’ professional knowledge
新聞快訊：澳大辦健康科學工作坊提升中學教師專業知識
澳大辦健康科學工作坊提升中學教師專業知識
UM FHS holds a health sciences workshop to enhance secondary school teachers’ professional knowledge
澳大辦健康科學工作坊提升中學教師專業知識
澳門大學健康科學學院為澳門粵華中學20多位理科教師舉辦了為期兩天的“了解人工智能在醫學上的應用工作坊”，旨在豐富教師的專業知識並拓寬他們的視野，進一步推進學院為在職教師提供的培訓項目。
在工作坊中，澳大健康科學學院副教授潘全威強調，精準醫療是改善醫療保健的重要方向。他深入介紹了精準醫療的概念、大數據的重要性，以及人工智能在未來公共衛生體系中的廣泛應用，包括解碼基因數據和其他群組學數據、新藥開發、疾病預測、疾病診斷、深度表型分析、治療反應預測、便攜式智慧型裝置開發等。他也探討了人工智能應用於精準醫療的挑戰和商機、介紹了機器學習工具的基本概念，如人工神經網絡、深度學習、大語言模型等，以及其在醫學和公共衛生領域的實際應用案例，並講解生成式人工智能將如何改革臨床醫療實踐。
粵華中學副校長龔抗行表示，持續的專業發展培訓對教師的教學成功非常重要，能夠提升教師的技能和教學效率，並激發創新思維。她對澳門大學提供的培訓表示感謝，認為這有助於提升教師的專業水平，推動他們在教學上的持續發展。
譚文濤參與工作坊時指出，工作坊提供了緊貼時代發展的資訊，引領老師們探討鮮有接觸的領域，同時有助於擴展學生的視野。，並有助他們拓展學生的眼界。另一位參加者謝家寶則認為，工作坊提到的大健康產業是國家戰略性新興產業，不僅是很多學生感興趣的話題，也為她的教學提供了新靈感。
澳大健康科學學院通過此類培訓積極回應社會需求，致力於提升澳門整體的教育質量。學院提供的健康科學講座不僅向教師展示了科技的創新、想法和發現，還為他們帶來全新的科學視角，並提升他們在職涯和學術路上的實力。
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UM organises health sciences workshop to enhance secondary school teachers’ professional knowledge
The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) of the University of Macau (UM) organised a two-day workshop titled ‘Understanding Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine’ for more than 20 science teachers from Yuet Wah College. As part of FHS’s training programmes for in-service teachers, the workshop aimed to enhance the teachers’ professional knowledge and broaden their horizons.
At the workshop, Poon Chuen Wai, associate professor in FHS, emphasised that precision medicine is an important avenue for improving healthcare. He explained in detail the concept of precision medicine, the importance of big data, and the wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in the future public healthcare system, including the analysis of genetic data and other omics data, new drug development, disease prediction, disease diagnosis, deep phenotyping, treatment response prediction, and the development of wearable smart devices. In addition, Prof Poon discussed the challenges and business opportunities related to the application of AI in precision medicine, and presented the basic principles of machine learning tools, such as artificial neural networks, deep learning and large language models, as well as their real-world applications in medicine and public health. He also explained how generative AI will reform clinical practice.
Kong Kong Hang, vice principal of Yuet Wah College, said that continuous professional training for teachers is very important for their success in teaching, as it can improve their teaching skills and effectiveness and stimulate innovative thinking. She thanked UM for organising training workshops for teachers, which helps enhance their professionalism and promote their continuous development in teaching.
Tam Man Tou, a teacher who participated in the workshop, said that the workshop provided participants with up-to-date information, which allowed them to explore fields they are not well versed in and helped them widen their students’ knowledge. Another participating teacher, Tse Ka Pou, said that the ‘big health’ industry, as a national strategic emerging industry, is not only a hot topic among students but also gives her inspiration for teaching.
FHS actively responds to the needs of the community by organising training workshops, with the aim of improving the overall quality of education in Macao. The workshops on health sciences held by the faculty not only introduce teachers to technological innovations, ideas and discoveries, but also give them a new perspective on science and enhance their professional and academic development.
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https://www.um.edu.mo/news-and-press-releases/campus-news/detail/58146/