The most interesting seminar focused on how technology can improve teaching in the medical field. Professor Shafi Ahmed pointed out the way medical students learn and the medical curriculums has not evolved, even though the technology doctors use has. He was the first person to live stream a educational surgery with a two way communication forum using Snapchat, Facebook live and VR. This just proves that the way we use technology can be applied in ways we had never thought about before. We are all connected, whether that is through globalization or social media and we should use this to our advantage. This opens a whole new door for medical education but also education in general: you could be a student in one hemisphere and have a teacher in another. This idea could change the game for people who want a high education but cannot afford the fees to move or access the school physically.
One of my favorite talks I went to today was an inspiration session I originally had not planned to go to. This session featured Lucy McRae, a sci-fi artist, film director and body architect who focuses on combining body, technology and art in futuristic ways. What made her talk so inspiring is hard to put into words. Simply, it left me speechless how her mind knows no boarders. What stood out to me was her idea of taking “exquisite risks”- risks that are unique and on the edge of uncertainty. This idea is simple: you cannot have creativity without risk. This exact attitude toward risk taking allowed this woman to take what she is most passionate about and cross it with science, experiments and health. This crossover of two completely different worlds has lead to new discoveries that have impacted so many people. If different industries and ways of thinking came together like this, so many more advances in health could be achieved.
so take some risks in your blog posts. I'm waiting...
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