Medical Education in the New Millennium

This interdisciplinary course features talks from thought leaders and innovators from medical education, instructional design, cognitive science, online learning, and emerging technology. Over the course of eleven weeks, we'll consider how to build educational experiences that address the unique learning preferences of today's Millennial medical students and residents. As the volume of new medical knowledge outpaces our ability to organize and retain it, how might educators disrupt outdated practices through thoughtful use of technology and learning design? How might MOOCs, social media, simulation and virtual reality change the face of medical education? How might we make learning continuous, engaging, and scalable in the age of increasing clinical demands and limited work hours? Joining the conversation will be experts from all health care and education stakeholder domains, including patients, and students from nursing, medicine and engineering sciences.

• Daphne Koller, founder of Coursera
• Dan Schwartz, Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education
• Kirsten Ostherr, Director of the Medical Futures Lab at Rice University
• Charles Prober, Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, Stanford
• Bryan Vartabedian, Director of Digital Literacy, Baylor College of Medicine
• Renate Fruchter, Founder of PBL Lab at Stanford School of Engineering
• Anne Marie Cunningham, Academic Lead for eLearning, University of Cardiff School of Medicine
• May Pian-Smith, Associate Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and more!

Patient and student speakers will include:

• Britt Johnson, ePatient, Stanford Medicine X ePatient Advisory Board Member
• Anna Clemenson, Nursing student, Duke University School of Nursing
• Roheet Kakaday, Medical Student, Oregon Health Sciences University
• Lynn Ngai, Medical Student, University of Southern California
• Andrew Stanley, PhD Student, Charm Lab, Stanford University and more!