Dean's Significant Conversations II

Current Crisis in Academic Medicine: Medical Education and Clinical Practice? The ongoing crisis in academic medicine has manifested in medical education and clinical practice. As we discussed in the first Conversation of this series. Physicians at academic teaching hospitals are increasingly leaving academic careers for better paying and less stressful settings [1, 2, 3, 4] even as physicians, more generally, exit the practice of medicine. Despite increases in medical school enrollments, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) projects to leave us with a national shortage of over 141,000 physicians by 2038. This projection comes even as advancements in Artificial Intelligence promise to improve the efficiency, productivity, and efficacy of clinical practice, transforming it in ways that presently we can only imagine. How might global polycrises, changing demographics, rising healthcare costs and declining average life expectancy in the United States and globally combined with advances in technology and breakthrough innovations for prevention and treatment of diseases reshape the practice of medicine in the future? What are the implications for medical education? And, how can we build on our existing strengths to create and reshape medical education to meet the expected demands of medical practice in the coming years? Panelists: Lia Logio, Shari Bolen, Gregory Hall, Kathryn Miller, Oliver Schirokauer, Gary Schwartz, and Monica Yepes-Rios Program: 5:00-5:3