Fast Company December 22, 2020
Medical schools should embrace new technologies in order to train doctors for the next pandemic.
Like any extreme stress test, COVID-19 has exposed both the strengths and vulnerabilities of our healthcare system.
On the positive side, we quickly learned how to mitigate the virus following its first deadly wave. Morbidity rates have plummeted since the spring. Multiple vaccines, developed in record time, now promise to halt the virus altogether.
Yet for all the gains made in 2020, there is the grim fact that more than 1.5 million people have died to date. There’s also the realization that our healthcare system was ill-prepared to handle the burden of COVID-19.
So how might medical schools prepare future physicians so they are better...
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