Forget everything you know

“Forget everything you know about medical education,” remarked Larry Chu, MD, Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X, as he challenged the inaugural audience to join him in re-imagining the future of medical education.

The Era of the Networked Patient

Virtual community expert Howard Rheingold spoke on the era of the networked patient. “It presents an unprecedented opportunity to see the intelligent, networked patient as a subject matter expert,” says Rheingold. [Press coverage]

Who are today’s Millennial medical learners? What drives their learning preferences? What aspects of today’s medical education system engage and attract these learners? What gaps exist and how might we innovate medical education from a learner-centered perspective?

Autonomy, Access and Patient Engagement

Joseph Santini discusses learning barriers that deaf students and patients face in medical education. How might we use technology and design to improve communication with the deaf community?

The importance of sitting with patients

Dhruv Khullar, a current resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, explains the inherent trade-off between empathy and efficiency, and the importance of sitting with every patient.

The unmet needs of medical learners

Medical educators aren’t meeting the needs of today’s students, so they are creating new tools themselves. Ryan Haynes, co-founder Osmosis, share’s why and how.

Today's pre-medical learners

ePatient scholar Nisha Pradhan explains how premedical students are learning today and what about their curriculum needs to be changed.

Self-identity among millennial learners

This panel explores self-identity among millennial medical learners what they expect from their education, and what current tools they use to enhance learning.

Who are the educators driving innovation today? How are they engaging with modern learners and what have been the keys to their success? What obstacles and challenges have educational innovators faces and how have they overcome these challenges?

Patient as professor

Dave deBronkart discusses how technological innovations can help medical students learn and interact with patients better. He shares what can be learned when the patient is the professor.

Multi-institutional blended learning

Traditional lectures  are a poor way to convey information, says Charles Prober.  Embedding key pieces of information in memorable interactions is a better way to make things stick. How might we imagine a “lecture hall without lectures”?

The art of medicine

Listen to Tim Van de Gift, a healthcare innovator and artist, speak about the importance of critical thinking in design thinking in medicine.

Medical school for millions

Dr. Mike Evans talks about how creativity and consistent failure helped him to build a “Med School for the Public” at the University of Toronto.

The new medical educators

Who are the new medical educators? Providers, patients and students themselves are all shaping today’s educational experience.

The new classroom has left the corridors and lecture halls of the physical domain. How has social media reshaped the educational landscape for medical education? How are new modalities for collaboration, collective intelligence and open access to information reshaping the learning environment?

Medical student communities of practice

Medical student and Editor-in-Chief of inTraining Ajay Major comments on the events in Ferguson and the ensuing “White Coats for Black Lives” movement that united medical students around the country.

Social media and curation

The Medical Futurist, Dr. Bertalan Mesko, predicts that a new wave of technological advancements is coming. What do medical doctors need to do to be better prepared when working with these new channels of patient data?

Social media as a tool for patients

Epatient scholar Marie Ennis O’Connor explains how social media platforms can be used as a learning and educational tool by patients.

Social media in pharmacy education

Stuart Haines, PharmD, tells us how social media can be used as a learning and educational tool, specifically in pharmacy education.

Bringing social media to medical education

This panel questions how today’s medical students can actively engage with social media and best adapt to new open-access learning environments.

Health care practitioners will have to learn new skills and adopt new strategies to interact and work with each other in order to improve the delivery of patient care. How might medical educators develop new curricula that encourages and supports interdisciplinary learning? What are the opportunities and challenges that exist for adoption of interdisciplinary learning across the health care spectrum?

Sparking new discoveries and cures

Medicine X ePatient Emily Kramer-Golinkoff discusses how patients and their families can “hack the system” to infuse health care with an urgency, laser focus and humanity that can help us all dream big by starting small.

Interprofessional education in action

Heather Davidson speaks about her work with the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning and how she finds that students meaningfully contribute to the care of patients when working in interprofessional teams.

Open communication and respect in learning

Paul Haidet analogizes the famous Bill Evans piano trio, one of the most fundamental units of Jazz music, to interprofessional practice in medicine.

Global change agents

Tina Brock, PhD. from UCSF, shares her recent clinical experiences in Namibia, a region of sub-saharan Africa with dire pharmacist shortages.

A new model for learning

This panel of thought leaders and educators question how we can overcome the major roadblocks and challenges of interdisciplinary learning.

What is the future of CME? How is it going to change or how should it change? Medicine is advancing faster than institutional systems can keep up. Continuing education will represent a critical skill for survival. The concept of continuing education needs a makeover as well as cultural change within practice of medicine.

Lifelong learning as a patient

EPatient scholar Leslie Rott shares her story of struggle and patient empowerment at the time when she was diagnosed with a chronic illness while pursuing her PhD.

The future of continuous learning

Brian McGowan, Chief Learning Officer and Co-founder of ArcheMedX, Inc., explains how to make information a catalyst to learning instead of a barrier for both learners and educators.

Maintenance of certification

Dr. Paul S. Teirstein explains why he created the National Board of Physicians and Surgeons and shares new ways that make physician life-long learning more meaningful.

The biggest gaps in CME

This panel addresses some of the biggest gaps in CME and the challenges faced when confronting the changes that need to happen in continuing medical education.

Redesigning higher education

Can the current system of higher education produce creative thinkers and problem solvers? Executive Director of the Stanford d.School, Sarah Stein Greenberg, answers this question as she opens the second day of Medicine X | Ed.

Update from Singapore

Naomi Low-Beer, Vice-Dean for Education, describes the innovation approach to medical education being taken by the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore.

Update from Europe

Anne Marie Cunningham from the Institute of Medical Education in South Wales discusses the current economic climate in Europe and its affects on medical education as well as the innovative curriculum Cardiff University is taking as they build their new curriculum.

Thank you's and important announcements

Executive Director, Larry Chu, MD, wraps up the first day of the inaugural Medicine X | Ed conference with important announcements and thank you’s to all of those who helped to turn this vision into a reality.