The future tools for medical training, assessment, and certification

Abstract

The medical educators currently are facing unprecedented challenges as they have been racing against the rapid and sometimes beyond imagination development in information and communication technology. The information is the basic fundamental unit of the whole education and learning process. The digital or electronic learning, information technology, and telecommunications revolutionary are providing fast and reliable methods to obtain the right needed information. The timely impact and use of these information should have an impact on ways of medical learning and education and curriculums. For long time, good at memorizing the medical information is one of the major foundations of the education and learning process. Artificial intelligence, virtual learning, visual reality, artificial realities, machine learning, robotic and other new inventions and discovery are aiming to enhance and speed up the time of conducting, and receiving information are important educational and learning tools that should be integrated and used in the education and learning systems and training programs. The use of machine learning (ML) in medical education and training and health care provides a good method and model for learning. However, it raises numerous ethical concerns. One of the questions which has been raised is who teach what! Do we teach the machine (program the machine) to teach our trainees (simulation for example) or the future computer and robot may program itself to teach all of us. The introduction of Autonomous Things (AuT) in learning processes and healthcare services should be regulated. Autonomous Things (AuT) are those created devices and machines that work to do specific tasks autonomously without human interference, permission, or interaction. These machines may include medical robots. Robot ethics is a broad topic too. In the near future, the concept of memorizing subjects should not be stressed upon so much. The concept how to obtain the right information at the right time for the right patient will be the fundamental base of future education. Definitely, electronic learning and advanced information and communication technology significantly increased knowledge, skills, and the trainees' competencies. Therefore the methods of examination and evaluation of trainees skills, knewledges and potentials should be changed from the current method which is mainly testing memories to evaluate the ability of the trainee to obtain the right and needed information, knowledge, solution cinereous in timely fashion. Telemedicine and tele education are globally growing demolishing geographical borders and penetrating the thick walls of universities and hospitals. These welcomed significant development of information and communication technology raised ethical and litigation considerations, which should be dealt with.