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Disrupting Medical Education

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Event
  • Session
  • Thursday, 18 May 2017
  • 12:18 - 12:18
  • Duration: 25 mins
  • Publication date: 23 May 2017
  • Location: Conference , BMA House, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event The 3rd Annual Future of Medicine

About the session

The aim of this conference is to explore just how far the delivery of health and care has been improved by the availability of new technology, and what the latest predictions are by those working in the field of how medicine will really be practised in ten years’ time.

Keywords:
  • AI
  • CT scan
  • DNA
  • Doctor
  • Google Glass
  • IoT
  • NHS
  • angiography
  • antimicrobial resistance
  • apps
  • autonomous systems
  • autonomous vehicles
  • big data
  • blood
  • cardiac
  • chest pain
  • connectivity
  • data
  • data sharing
  • diagnosis
  • digital health
  • digital healthcare
  • drones
  • drug development
  • education
  • environment
  • genome
  • health clinics
  • heart
  • heart attack
  • heart disease
  • imaging
  • medical profession
  • medical technological development
  • medicine
  • myocardinal infarction
  • pharmaceuticals
  • robotic systems
  • smart drugs
  • smart phone
  • social media
  • stroke disease
  • surgery
  • technology
  • telecommunications
  • vaccines

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  • Mr Shafi Ahmed

    Mr Shafi Ahmed

    St Bartholomew's Hospital, Consultant General, Laparoscopic and Colorectal Surgeon

    Professor Shafi Ahmed is a laparoscopic colorectal surgeon at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals. As a dedicated trainer, educator, and Associate Dean of Bart’s Medical School, he was awarded the Silver Scalpel award in 2015 as the best national trainer in surgery by the Association of Surgeons in Training. He is currently serving as an elected member of council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is a faculty member of the International Foundation for the Advancement of Surgical Telementoring (IFAST)He is always looking at ways of translating technology into clinical practice with a mission to provide affordable and accessible surgical training to anyone and everyone using the power of connectivity to allow equitable surgical care.He made world headline news in 2014 by streaming a live operation using Google Glass to 14,000 students and trainees across 132 countries.On April 14th, 2016 he performed the world’s first virtual reality operation which was watched by 55,000 people in 140 countries, and reached 4.5 million on Twitter. In December 2016 he used the Snapchat spectacles to records and teach surgery across the globe which has had over 100 000 downloads and viewed by over 2 million people and reached 54 million people on twitter. He has designed a new and innovative new course at Barts and The London Medical School called Barts X medicine which teaches medical students about future medicine, digital health and entrepreneurshipHis passion for merging the world of medicine, global education, and virtual reality was the driver behind founding Medical Realties who have recently launched the worlds Virtual Reality interactive surgical training platform.
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