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Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA)

14.09. - 17.09.2016, Bern, Schweiz

Transforming Medical Education via Disruptive Innovations

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  • corresponding author presenting/speaker Spencer Nam - Boston, USA

Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA). Bern, 14.-17.09.2016. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2016. DocKN-101b

doi: 10.3205/16gma101, urn:nbn:de:0183-16gma1012

Published: September 5, 2016

© 2016 Nam.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.


Outline

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Over the past century the practice of medicine has evolved from having limited understanding and tools to providing some of the most advanced scientific and technological solutions to patients. However, during the same period, the basic architecture of our medical education has gone through very little change. The content of the building blocks within this architecture has changed substantially, but the fundamental design of the experience is more than a century old. The result of this old structure in educating the new generation of medical professionals is that it takes much longer and more expensive to educate tomorrow’s doctors. Unfortunately, with healthcare becoming more expensive and complex, we cannot afford the physician education to be even more expensive than today. With likely shortage of medical professionals looming, we also need faster and efficient ways to train the most competent physicians. This session will examine the history and the current model of medical education, and how we can use principles of disruptive innovation to deliver a new model for medical education in the 21st century. Based on principles learned from well-known examples of disruptive innovations in other industries, we offer more efficient education and training models that will produce competent medical professionals who will be better equipped to deal with the evolving disease landscape and patients of the future.