AAHCI MENA Regional Conference

AUBMC and AAHC-I have partnered with Columbia University/Narrative Medicin​e Program, Lebanese American University Chagoury School of Medicine, and the University of Balamand Faculty of Medicine, to host a Regional Conference: "Transformation of Medical Education in the New Era" on the campus of the American University of Beirut Medical Center from September 27 to 29, 2018.

The impending impact of Artificial Intelligence on healthcare delivery will lead to radical revisions of the entire edifice of medical education, starting with the undergraduate ("pre-med") curriculum and extending to graduate medical education.

In this new era, diagnostic accuracy and therapeutic options will be more reliably provided by machines, re-focusing the role of the physician on the personalized approach to patient care, and on the professional, humane, and social determinants of illness. The physicians of tomorrow must master new technologies and acquire a significantly deeper knowledge of medical humanities, narrative medicine, precision medicine, and medical genetics.

This will necessitate new offerings in the undergraduate and MD curricula, and will redefine the profile of medical school applicants. These changes will also present a major challenge to the teaching faculty at all academic health centers, and to how schools of medicine will work symbiotically with the medical centers which serve as their teaching institutions.