Enhancing Teaching and Learning of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy through AI and Technology

Learning objectives

By the end of this symposium, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the potential changes in physio training with the use of AI and technology in education.
2. Learn about how to create virtual patient with the virtual patient system
3. Discover how objective visual feedback can enhance embodied cognition and learning spinal mobilisations in musculoskeletal mobilisation training.
4. Experience the use of SMOFT (Spinal Mobilisation Objective Feedback Tool) to assess accuracy of spinal landmark location and real-time feedback of spinal mobilisations.

Symposium Convenor and Speaker: A/Prof Benjamin Soon, Singapore Institute of Technology

Title: Virtual patient system for MSK physiotherapy training in clinical reasoning and history taking

Biography: A/Prof Benjamin Soon has taught at SIT since the beginning of the SIT programme. He currently is the team lead for MSK modules covering the undergraduate and postgraduate programme.

Speaker: Dr Audrey Lim Ei-Ping, Assistant Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology

Title: Spinal Mobilisation Objective Feedback Tool (SMOFT): Objective Visual Feedback for Embodied Learning

Biography: Audrey is an assistant professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). She is the Program Lead for SIT Physiotherapy undergraduate program and is involved in the module development for the SIT Master of Health Sciences (Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy). Her teaching responsibilities include ethics and musculoskeletal physiotherapy. Audrey’s research interests are in the areas of ethics and healthcare education with a focus on use of technology to enhance teaching and learning.