Dr. Curtis Cole is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Weill Cornell Medicine, where he is responsible for the Samuel J. Wood Library, and the core IT infrastructure and services that support the research, clinical, education, and administrative functions of...
Prof. Stacey Chang is the Executive Director of the Design Institute for Health, a collaboration between the Dell Medical School and the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined our Kuala Lumpur 2018 meeting...
Dr. Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. Dr, Kraft was a keynote speaker at the IGHPE 2018 meeting in Kuala Lumpur,...
3D printing – the production of three dimensional objects by the sequential addition layers of a building material atop each other according to a pattern – has been around for some time now, and 3D printers are being used today...
More podcasts from the IGHPE Shanghai 2017 Conference are now available on our Audio & Video page: M. Brownell (Brownie) Anderson Ms. Anderson is Vice President for International Programs at the National Board of Medical Examiners in the USA, serves on the...
Progress of medicine and, together with it, the wellbeing of patients depend on creative minds. Patel and Chaikof, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School, alert us to the fact that even modern educational tools—problem-based learning, the ‘flipped classroom’, and so on—mostly...
“Content expertise”, as noted recently, does not equal “teaching expertise.” Moreover, the age gap between teachers and learners means that teachers too often teach the way they were taught, whereas the learners use ways of knowledge acquisition unknown to their...
Throughout medical school, students collect loosely connected islands of knowledge (even in integrated curricula) about health and disease. Later, in clinical practice, they encounter ‘whole’ human individuals, with conditions that have complex roots and effects within their lives. Thus, future...
A number of journals deals with teaching and education of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals. Why do we at IGHPE think the time has come to start a new platform? The introductory video gives insights into our motives for...
