Design Thinking for Healthcare and Medical School
This week I am talking to Dr. Clay Johnston, MD, PhD (@ClayDellMed), Dean, Dell Medical School and Vice President for Medical Affairs, UT Austin. Dr. Johnston has been the inaugural dean of Dell Medical School and is working towards a vision to create a new model for academic medicine that accelerates innovation to improve health and reduce inefficiencies in health care.
Find out how they set their vision and as Dr. Johnston describes the importance of making this a worthy vision and the associated difficulty with achieving that goal and what that means to your incremental steps to getting there. You can hear about their new Design Institute lead by Stacey Chang, who came from the innovative design house IDEO to run the design institute. You incremental learning point from the Design Institute:
“Don’t Assume you know”
You can hear about the Dell Medical Schools unique recruitment methods that help them find the students who are well suited to the new age of medicine – hint its not your MCAT score, how they screen and then how they have changed up the medical curriculum to offer a whole new system to nurture innovation and new thinking in our future doctors so they are well equipped to work in our new world of DigitalHealth
Listen live at 4:00 AM, 12:00 Noon or 8:00 PM ET, Monday through Friday for the next two weeks at HealthcareNOW Radio. After that, you can listen on demand (See podcast information below.) Join the conversation on Twitter at #TheIncrementalist.
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