The Hong Kong Polytechnic University delivers Bachelor and Master degrees in rehabilitation sciences.
Yan’s Story was delivered online in combination with face-to-face lectures for final year occupational therapy students, 2009.
This enabled students to practice their case management skills within a virtual student placement, that is, an interactive real-time scenario based in Hong Kong. The scenario explored challenges that a disabled young man would face when discharged from hospital at a time when there was a low level of disability awareness.
Students followed real time developments that Yan encountered in returning to his life. Challenges exacerbated by commonly experienced social, physical, economic and emotional stress.