Can A. I. Tutors Help Train Enough Medical Professionals?

By 2030, the global economy will have led to the creation of some 40 million new jobs in the health sector; mostly in middle- and high-income countries. Paradoxically, the WHO stresses that in parallel, the world will be short of up to 9.9 million physicians, nurses and midwives by that year. Moreover, the availability of healthcare workforce is unequally distributed, with some countries having 5 times more doctors than others; or, in some cases, 9 times as many nurses as others. The imbalances and shortages are predicted to persist in the foreseeable future; with the WHO adding that even the increase in health workers in the past decade is unlikely to be stable and may not be sufficient to attend to the needs of ageing populations. As such, it is becoming clear that we are not training healthcare practitioners in adequate quantities and not fast enough; leaving the impression that we will live in a world with doctor shortages forever. But could new technologies within the realm of digital health be of some assistance to train medical professionals? New developments, especially in the field of artificial intelligence (A.I.), offer such an indication. So let’s contemplate how helpful A.I. can be in training medical professionals. Disrupting the training of medical professionals with new technologies In the digital health era, technology’s assistance in training medical staff is slowly taking a central stage. Mixed reality simulators have been shown to be a viab...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Medical Education AI healthcare jobs future of education AI tutor Source Type: blogs