1069Reflection from working with multi-disciplinary teams on practice of teaching epidemiology

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Abstract Focus of Presentation Health research teams has increasingly worked together as multi-disciplinary teams. Sponsorships and/or fellowships may provide teaching academics the opportunity to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams on real-life research and enhance their teaching practice. This presentation will focus on sharing reflection of a teaching academic working with multi-disciplinary teams, and the experience on influencing the academic’s practice of teaching epidemiology. Findings The opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary clinicians has been enriching. In addition to building networks, it has helped to build confidence of the academic in clarifying unit learning outcomes, developing well-aligned curricula and designing authentic activities that scaffold threshold concepts effectively to assist students achieve the unit learning outcomes. The confidence of students on the teaching academic is also enhanced as they gain quantitative research skills on real-life examples, which would be useful for the future workforce. Conclusions/Implications The opportunity for academic who teach epidemiology to work with multi-disciplinary research teams can bring along positive outcomes. It not only enhances research outputs of both parties, teaching capability of the academic, but also the confidence of our future workforce in the area of epidemiology. Key messages Teaching academics need opportunities to work with the industry in order to effectively bridge the teaching-research nexus in both directions, and create win-win-win situations for the academics, the students and the industry collaborators.