Medical education must become accustomed to diverse health care trends and contexts, including digitalized health care solutions. It should dynamically connect with a digital generation of students and medical professionals in this highly connected world. Also, medical educators require enabling and implementing educational programs that bond with the latest learning trends. Here are some of the key trends in medical education in the year 2021.

Student-driven Learning with Modernized Technology

Modernized technology enables students’ learning by offering opportunities whenever they want to explore and learn more; they can interact with their peers and faculty to share helpful information. This scenario includes the sharing of teaching resources students can access from any of the geographic locations.

Dynamic Learning with Personalization and Individualization

Advanced technology has enabled individualized learning, which has further facilitated and boosted students’ interest in medical education. Virtual patient simulators allow students to learn by providing venues for practising the medical diagnosis of various abnormalities without the threat of patient harm and explore abnormal pathology not otherwise readily accessible with live patient encounters. Personalized Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology systems could also promote autonomous learning by trimming down laboratory materials and teaching costs.

With MED-GURU LEP, an innovative learning experience platform designed by APRICUS MED-TECH, these educational resources can be made more engaging and exciting than textbooks as a learning experience can be embedded with AR, AI, and Gamification as per the requirements of medical students and practicing physicians. Through MED-GURU, medicine students get to explore and learn from the best professionals with the click of a button. Here, healthcare professionals make complex medical topics easy to learn and turn the complete learning process enjoyable. 

Social Interactions 

Advanced technology has enabled social interaction with peers and faculty with mobile devices and apps at any time and from anywhere. The online education communities offer medical students an opening to practice clinical skills and engage with faculties by learning video recordings of live medical cases. This scenario is made readily accessible through advanced devices and personalized feedback from faculties, despite busy schedules and tough reachability of medical faculties.

Mobile devices and advanced technology used to provide video tutorials and remote online peer-tutoring in medical and clinical skills facilitate the students to benefit from distance learning even amid two continents at a time suitable to both tutors and learners.

Resource Accessibility

Modern technology has facilitated medical students in resource-limited settings to engage with other learners, tutors, and other curricula. Distant peer-to-peer e-learning has motivated students to enlarge the scope of healthcare education beyond the restrictions of medical resources and explore how health care works diversely in diverse cultures.

Key Takeaways

So, technology trends in medical education are empowering students today. How do educators and learners cope with this technology, how they use it to turn effective and more productive depends on the actual use of the same. 

At APRICUS MED-TECH, we have a clear objective to empower medical learners with the help of advanced technologies, including E-Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Augmented Reality (AR). The MED-GURU LEP, powered by APRICUS MED-TECH, is a new age innovative learning management platform. In contrast to the conventional LMS platforms, MED-GURU LEP focuses on immersive learning experiences through an amalgamation of advanced learning technologies and Gamification.