Due to the remarkable changes in the information-communication technology and the "digital natives" entering the med schools, the medical students of 2020 would be globally connected learner using web-2 and web-3 technologies. However, for complex skills learning of the healthcare profession, is best learnt by the apprenticeship model. Students must go beyond knowledge acquisition to learn how to apply the knowledge and how to practice the skills effectively

1. Medical Education 2020
 The Med-School
 The Teacher
 The Student

2. Why Change? – a 20-year old in 2020
• Used a computer before
starting kindergarten
• Spend 20,000 hrs. watching
interactive TV and movies
• Send 200,000 emails/texts
• Uses a technology no one
today has predicted in 1980

3. These young people
were born into a
digital world where
they expect to be
able to create,
consume, remix,
and share creations.
-PEW Internet Project

4. How will you engage them?

5. How will you know
what they are learning?

6. Why MBBS? - The Same Old Reasons…
• “I’m keen to be a doctor”
• See a doctor as
– a professional,
– an important member of society,
– commanding a position of respect
• Motivations for studying medicine,
– desire to help people, altruism,
– to make a difference
– to earn money, power and have a good Life

7. Who? The Student Characteristics
• Most will be high achieving, type-A personalities
 intense goal-oriented individuals
 with a sustained drive and competitiveness
 over-critical, demanding,
 focusing on the negative aspects
 impatient with imperfections
• have excelled at school academically,
• enjoy music, arts, &/or sport
• have held positions of responsibility at school

8. On Gender & Heutagogy
• increase in the number of women entering
medical school in the last two decades
• this trend is likely to continue in 2020
• students may embrace Heutagogy*
– demand more control over their learning
– wish greater influence over the course design
– expect more autonomy in their learning
* Heutagogy = self determined learning

9. The Status of Medical Profession
• “Noble status” is being eroded = less Prestige
• the diminishing respect given to doctors
• “job” is all-consuming and life beyond
medicine is limited
• High incidences of alcohol abuse, divorce &
suicide rates among Doctors
• These may dissuade prospective students

10. Competencies Needed For Tomorrow
• greater reliance on information technology
• Computers and the Internet (Web-2.0) are
shaping the society of the future
• Doctors of the future will have to
acknowledge and embrace this technology
• much of the medical course may be computer
and Internet based (‘i-pad medicos’)

11. Competencies Needed …
• to distinguish between valid, useful and
correct information and copious amounts of
misleading material in the Internet
• Tele-medicine skills
• medical students of the future will need to be
literate in the language of genetics
• In future, a doctor will be expected to stop the
disease before it develops (primordial
prevention)

12. Core Focus of Future Doctors
• to be
– caring, compassionate,
– honest,
– an effective and productive communicator,
– with integrity and
– an ability to develop personally and
– be a lifelong learner
• SOME THINGS REMAIN THE SAME…

13. Thank you…