Artificial intelligence as a driver of change in the healthcare sector
AI in medicine - one of the main topics at last week's meeting of the relevant education officers from German-speaking medical organizations in Nottwil. In his presentation, Prof. Dr. Jörg Goldhahn takes up the topic and focuses on the impact of AI on medical studies, also using the example of the BSc in Human Medicine at ETH Zurich.
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the healthcare system and fundamentally changing it. To realize its full potential, the training of healthcare professionals in this area must also grow with it. The generation of digital natives in particular plays a key role here.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a promise for the future - it is a reality in today's healthcare system. AI supports diagnostics, analyses large amounts of data in the shortest possible time, helps with personalized therapy planning and relieves the burden on medical staff in administrative processes. Used correctly, it can contribute to quality assurance, increased efficiency and better patient care.
However, technological advances alone are not enough. For AI to be anchored in the healthcare system in a sustainable and responsible way, it needs people who understand, understand and help shape it.
The so-called generation of digital natives in particular - young people who
have grown up with digital technologies as a matter of course - have a valuable prerequisite: digital affinity. It is crucial that medical education
systematically integrates digital skills into its curriculum and thinks about
them. Training relies on future doctors to help shape the existing system and adapt it to the new possibilities.
We are facing a major challenge: The speed at which technological progress is being introduced is overwhelming traditional implementation mechanisms in the clinical process.
New teaching formats can address and convey this. Keyword: interdisciplinary learning - interfaces between medicine, informatics, ethics and health management must be emphasized more strongly in training. It will also be crucial to critically scrutinize AI-based results and data. Doctors of the future must be able to take responsibility in this area.
If we want to turn the digital natives of today into the "change leaders" of tomorrow, we need to give them the right tools - technical knowledge, ethical judgment, digital sovereignty and the courage to shape things.
A common goal set by the education managers of the medical organizations present at this event.
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