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What if we educated doctors this way?

What if we educated doctors this way?. John Gardner, PhD, PE Professor of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering Associate Vice President Boise State University. Faculty Meeting in a Medical School. How can we define the “Ideal Doctor”. Survey people Ask Hospital Administrators

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What if we educated doctors this way?

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  1. What if we educated doctors this way? John Gardner, PhD, PE Professor of Mechanical & Biomedical Engineering Associate Vice President Boise State University

  2. Faculty Meeting in a Medical School

  3. How can we define the “Ideal Doctor” • Survey people • Ask Hospital Administrators • Ask Health Insurance Managers • Ask CEO’s of large medical care groups like St. Al’s

  4. Some likely features • Good understanding of the bottom line • Good employees • Understand the big picture • Have an understanding of accounting and finance issues

  5. ABET Engineering Accreditation Criteria • Criterion 2. Program Educational Objectives • (a) published educational objectives that are consistent with the mission of the institution and these criteria • (b) a process that periodically documents and demonstrates that the objectives are based on the needs of the program's various constituencies

  6. But who are our Constituencies?

  7. What’s the fundamental tenet of medical ethics? • Primum non nocere • First, do no harm

  8. What’s the fundamental tentet of engineering ethics? • Hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public

  9. Where’s the public?

  10. What does it mean… • To hold paramount public safety • … while being a good employee ?

  11. Engineering Enrollments • (A) Not enough engineers • (B) Not enough minorities • (C) Not enough women

  12. Same time, different profession… • Source: Association of American Medical Colleges

  13. And from the lawyers…

  14. AP Course Participation Figure F. Percent of public high school graduates of 2000 who had taken various mathematics and science courses in high school, by sex: 2000

  15. Source: Engineering Trends (www.engtrends.com)

  16. What if… • What if we truly embraced our code of ethics? • What if we truly “Hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public”? • What if we designed our curriculum and programs around that central theme? • What if we taught engineering students to solve Problems with a capital “P” instead of teaching them to design widgets?

  17. What if we educated engineers that way?

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