The GPS of Medical Knowledge for the 21st Century

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The health knowledge explosion of the next decades is likely to be considerable.
IBM estimates that by 2020 human knowledge will be doubling every 12 hours.
Doctors will not be able to hold all the knowledge they require to provide high
quality healthcare but some knowledge will have to be retrieved very rapidly still, for example the treatment of a patient with life threatening anaphylaxis or an acute myocardial infarction where seconds count. We need to identify what knowledge will be required to practice medicine in the next two decades and where will that
knowledge will reside – beneath skull and skill or in the cloud or a combination of both.

Sub Unit

• Division I - Education in the Professions

Chair

• Katharine Boursicot, Duke NUS

Papers

• Future Health Care Systems and the Needs of Patients - Trudie Elizabeth Roberts, University of Leeds

• What Is Core Medical Knowledge for the 21st Century? - Lois Margaret Nora, Northeast Ohio Medical University

• How Will Students Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn? - Sandra Joy Kemp, Curtin University

• The Future of Knowledge Assessment - David B. Swanson, American Board for Medical Specialities

Discussant

• Lee S. Shulman, Stanford University