Dr Linda CHAN

Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education
Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education
- BMedSci (Nottm), BMBS (Nottm), MMEd (Dund), DABFM, MAcadMEd, FAAFP, FHEA
Concurrent with her family medicine practice, she was involved in teaching, medical education consulting, and disaster and humanitarian medical relief trips to Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Ghana, Indonesia, Macau, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. Since 2020 she has been Clinical Assistant Professor, jointly appointed under the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, and the Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education. Her research interests lie in medical education, and centre on the wellbeing of healthcare learners and professionals. Reflecting this, she was awarded the Highly Commended MedEdPublish Article 2018 – 2019 at the 2019 Association for Medical Education in Europe Conference held in Vienna, Austria (Chan L, Dennis A. Resilience: a nationwide study of medical educators. MedEdPublish 2019;8(1):20).
Key Research Areas
- Wellbeing and resilience of healthcare learners and professionals
- Medical education (in particular faculty development for family medicine faculty in low- and middle-income countries)
- Clinical family medicine
Key Publications
- Chan L, Liu RKW, Lam TP, Chen JY, Tipoe GL, Ganotice FA. Validation of the World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5) among medical educators in Hong Kong: a confirmatory factor analysis. Med Educ Online 2022;27(1):2044635. Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2022.2044635.
- Ganotice FA Jr, Chan L, Chow AYM, Khoo US, Lam MPS, Liu RKW, Poon RPW, Wang MN, Tsoi FHS, Tipoe GL. What characterize high and low achieving teams in Interprofessional education: A self-determination theory perspective. Nurse Educ Today 2022;112:105321. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105321.
- Chen JY, Chan L, Chin WY. Medical Student Wellbeing in Hong Kong. In: Molodynski A, Farrell S, Bhugra D (eds). The Mental Health of Medical Students: Supporting Wellbeing in Medical Education (in press).
- Ganotice FA Jr, Chan CS, Chan, EWY, Chan, SKW, Chan L, Chan SCS, Lam AHY, Leung CYF, Leung SC, Lin X, Luk P, Ng ZLH, Shen X, Tam EYT, Wang R, Wong GHY, Tipoe GL. Autonomous motivation predicts students’ engagement and disaffection in interprofessional education: Scale adaptation and application. Nurse Educ Today 2022;105549. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105549.
- Wan EYF, Yu EYT, Chan L, Mok AHY, Wang Y, Chan EWY, Wong ICK, Lam CLK. Comparative Risks of Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs on Cardiovascular Diseases: A Population-Based Cohort Study. J Clin Pharmacol 2022;10.1002/jcph.2142. Available at https://doi.org/10.1002/jcph.2142.
- Ganotice FA Jr, Chan L, Shen X, Lam AHY, Wong GHY, Liu RKW, Tipoe GL. Team cohesiveness and collective efficacy explain outcomes in interprofessional education. BMC Med Educ. 2022;22(1):820. Available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03886-7.
- Wan EYF, Yu EYT, Chan L, Mok AHY, Wang Y, Chan EWY, Wong ICK, Lam CLK. Comparative Risks of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on CKD. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2021;16(6):898-907. Available at https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.18501120.
- Chan L, Dennis A. Resilience: Insights from medical educators. Clin Teach 2019;16(4):384-389. Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.13058.
- Chan L, Dennis A. Resilience: a nationwide study of medical educators. MedEdPublish 2019;8(1):20. Available at https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2019.000020.1.
Research Funding
Principal Investigator
2020-2022 | Enhanced New Staff Start-up Research Grant (HK$380,000), "Resilience: A Mixed Methods Study of Hong Kong Medical Educators". |
2020-2021 | Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff (HK$150,000), "Resilience: A Pilot Mixed Methods Study of HKU Medical Educators". |
Co-Investigator
2021-2022 | Teaching Development Grant (HK$296,020), “Living Library of Patient-Educators for Virtual Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Clinical Consultation Skills for Medical Students”. |
2021-2022 | Teaching Development Grant (HK$200,000), “From Literacy to Actual Collaboration: Applying a Spiral Approach to a Large-scale Cross-Faculty Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Model for HKU”. |
2021-2022 | Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff (HK$150,000), “Exploring student- and group-level predictors for teamwork achievement in interprofessional education: A multilevel analysis”. |
Conference Presentations
August 27-31, 2022 | Chan L, Ganotice FJA, Chen JY, Wong CKM, Liu RKW, Wan EYF, Lam TP, Wong SYS, Tipoe GL. Resilience among Hong Kong Medical Educators: A Cross-Sectional Study. AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe) 2022, Redefining Health Professions Education Together - a Hybrid Conference, Lyon, France. |
July 30 - August 1, 2021 | Mok AHY, Wan EYF, Yu EYT, Chan L, Wang Y, Chan EWY, Wong ICK, Lam CLK. Comparative Risks of Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Chronic Kidney Disease. Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2021, The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians, Hong Kong SAR. |
July 16-17, 2021 | Chan L, Ganotice FJA, Lam TP, Chen JY, Liu RKW, Tipoe GL. Validation of the World Health Organization Well-Being Index (WHO-5) in Hong Kong Medical Educators. 8th Asia Pacific Primary Care Research Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. |
April 8-12, 2021 | Lee TY, Chan SCS, Bridges SM, Chen JY, Chan L. A Narrative Analysis on Teacher Reflections Shifting to Emergency Remote Teaching in Master of Education in Health Professions Education. 2021 American Educational Research Association Virtual Annual Meeting. |
November 27-28, 2020 | Tipoe GL, Ganotice FJA, Chan L, Chow AYM, Khoo US, Lam PS, Poon PW, Wang N, Tsoi HS, Liu KW. What differentiates attitudes and achievement of high and low performing teams in an online interprofessional education? A preliminary investigation in Hong Kong. Frontiers in Medical and Health Sciences Education 2020 Virtual Conference, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. |
September 7-9, 2020 | Chan L, Dennis A. Resilience: Conceptualisations and curricular approaches of medical educators. Association for Medical Education in Europe 2020: The Virtual Experience (Online). |
October 12-15, 2019 | Chan L, Heffron W. Faculty Development: Equipping National Faculty of Family Medicine Residency Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. WONCA World Rural Health Conference 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. |
October 9-12, 2019 | Chan L, Heffron W. A Faculty Development Curriculum for National Family Medicine Faculty in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. American Academy of Family Physicians Global Health Summit 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. |
Invited Presentations & Workshops
December 2021 | Chan L. ‘Resilience: A Pilot Mixed Methods Study of HKU Medical Educators.’ Annual Family Medicine Teachers’ Meeting (Online), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. |
August 2021 | Chan L. ‘Medical Education Research and Principles of Supervision.’ The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital Train the Trainer Course (Virtual). |
May 2021 | Chan L. ‘Resilience: A Pilot Mixed Methods Study of HKU Medical Educators.’ BIMHSE Lunchtime Seminar, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. |
November 2020 | Chan L. ‘Medical Education Research and Principles of Supervision.’ The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital Train the Trainer Course (Virtual). |
November 2020 | Chan L, Heffron W, Jenkins C. ‘Faculty Development Curriculum for Family Medicine Educators in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).’ Teaching Healthcare in a Global Setting 2020 (Virtual). |
May 2020 | Tipoe GL, Ganotice FJA, Chan L, Wong KT, Ng LH, Chow AYM, Tsoi HS. 'Join-the-Conversation: Promoting Online Interprofessional Teamwork Skills: Challenges and Opportunities.' Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning Seminar, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. |
March 2018 | Chan L. ‘On Resilience During Residency Training.’ In His Image Family Medicine Residency Program, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. |
November 2015 | Chan L. ‘The One Minute Preceptor. Time Efficient Teaching in Clinical Practice.’ Hainan Province General Practice Training Conference, Haikou, China. |
November 2015 | Chan L. ‘Teaching in Outpatient and Community Settings.’ Hainan Province General Practice Training Conference, Haikou, China. |
April 2012 | Chan L. ‘Teaching in the Inpatient Setting.’ National Family Medicine Faculty Development Conference, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. |
April 2012 | Chan L. ‘Teaching in Community and Ambulatory Settings.’ National Family Medicine Faculty Development Conference, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. |
April 2011 | Chan L. ‘Teaching in the Inpatient Setting.’ National Training Program for Family Medicine Teachers, National Training Centre for General Practice, MOH, P. R. China, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. |
March 2010 | Chan L. ‘Teaching in the Inpatient Setting.’ National Training Program for Family Medicine Teachers, National Training Centre for General Practice, MOH, P. R. China, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. |
November 2009 | Chan L. ‘Teaching in the Inpatient Setting.’ General Practice Champion Doctors Training Curriculum, Shenzhen Continuing Medical Education Centre, Shenzhen, China. |
November 2009 | Chan L. ‘Evidence Based Practice I.’ General Practice Champion Doctors Training Curriculum, Shenzhen Continuing Medical Education Centre, Shenzhen, China. |
June 2005 | Chan L. ‘Evaluation of contentment in participants of an assets-based questionnaire.’ In His Image Scientific Assembly, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. |
April 2005 | Chan L. ‘Diabetes Mellitus.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Kabul, Afghanistan. |
April 2005 | Chan L. ‘Heart Sounds.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Kabul, Afghanistan. |
March 2005 | Chan L. ‘RAP Criteria Part II: Curriculum. Based on the Residency Assistance Programme Criteria for Excellence 2005.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Chengdu, China. |
March 2005 | Chan L. ‘RAP Criteria Part II: Curriculum. Based on the Residency Assistance Programme Criteria for Excellence 2005.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Shenyang, China. |
March 2005 | Chan L. ‘Diabetes Mellitus.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Shenyang, China. |
March 2005 | Chan L. ‘HIV & AIDS Update 2005.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Shenyang, China. |
March 2005 | Chan L. ‘Diabetes Mellitus.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Macau SAR. |
March 2005 | Chan L. ‘HIV & AIDS Update 2005.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Macau SAR. |
April 2004 | Chan L. ‘Diabetes Mellitus.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Beijing, China. |
April 2004 | Chan L. ‘HIV / AIDS Update 2004.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Beijing, China. |
March 2004 | Chan L. ‘Diabetes Mellitus.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Macau SAR. |
March 2004 | Chan L. ‘HIV / AIDS Update 2004.’ Family Practice Education International Seminar, Macau SAR. |
Professional Services
Professional Committees
2022 - present | Working Group Co-Convenor, The University of Hong Kong, LKS Faculty of Medicine, Enrichment Year Working Group - Service/Humanitarian Work |
2022 - present | Member of the Organising Committee (Scientific Subcommittee) for the Hong Kong Primary Care Conference (HKPCC) 2023, the annual flagship conference of The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians. |
2021 - present | Member, The University of Hong Kong, LKS Faculty of Medicine, Enrichment Year Working Group - Service/Humanitarian Work |
2021 - present | Asia-Pacific Academic Primary Care Group (AAPCG) Scholar |
2021 - present | Member, Panel of Reviewers for Editorial Board of the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians |
2021 - present | Associate Member, The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians |
2021 - present | Member, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, USA |
2021 - 2022 | Member, American Educational Research Association |
2020 - present | Member, WONCA (World Organization of Family Doctors) Working Party on Education |
2019 - present | Member, Association for Medical Education in Europe. |
2003 - present | Member, Christian Medical and Dental Association. |
2003 - present | Member, American Academy of Family Physicians. |