How will medical school admissions change with the rising threat of automation?

[Thesimplelifeofamyloid]

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Hi!

I posted something similar in the medical student forms, but I wanted to center the discussion specifically on medical school admissions. With the rising threat of automation, how will medical schools adapt? Do you think they'd have to take less and less students? In the next 20 years, should we anticipate schools to start closing? Will schools have to shift their curriculum, with a greater emphasis on CS and machine learning.

 

[Agentcross]

This thread again?

Here. We. Go.

 

[LizzyM]

I can't see that happening. No one wants a machine to deliver their baby, remove their cancerous testicle or deliver bad news.

 

[Moko]

There will be job security for the foreseeable future. The population isn't getting younger any time soon.

 

[Thesimplelifeofamyloid]

There will be job security for the foreseeable future. The population isn't getting younger any time soon.

When does the "forseeable" future end?

 

[Cornfed101]

When does the "forseeable" future end?

Nanobots

 

[Moko]

When does the "forseeable" future end?

How long will our species be around?

Medicine will probably be one of the last jobs to be replaced by robots/AI

 

[Seihai]

Machine learning/AI/CS isn't the Holy Grail of everything (no matter how much I wish they could be).

The pipe dream of replacing a doctor and having a robot treat you is just that - a pipe dream. No algorithms or computational systems in place come even remotely close to being able to replace human capabilities in medicine, much less in many other fields.

What is more likely is such things being used as support. They definitely will have an impact in medicine (and computational intervention/support has already improved many specialties, most notably radiology), but they will act only as clinical decision support systems for quite some time. To go further would be to hit some kind of absurd singularity in technology, which would fundamentally change the way society works along with it, making any predictions at this stage pointless.

 

[Medic741]

When does the "forseeable" future end?

Probably after our lifetimes.

 

[Goro]

With the rising threat of automation, how will medical schools adapt? Do you think they'd have to take less and less students? In the next 20 years, should we anticipate schools to start closing? Will schools have to shift their curriculum, with a greater emphasis on CS and machine learning.

1) What threat of automation?
2) No
3) No

 

[907914]

remove their cancerous testicle

Spoiler: Inappropriate joke

Robo Cock

 

[AnatomyGrey12]

Yeah no.

 

[premeddestiny]

Hi!

I posted something similar in the medical student forms, but I wanted to center the discussion specifically on medical school admissions. With the rising threat of automation, how will medical schools adapt? Do you think they'd have to take less and less students? In the next 20 years, should we anticipate schools to start closing? Will schools have to shift their curriculum, with a greater emphasis on CS and machine learning.

Come back to me when robots are able to deliver babies, tell families that their loved one is dying, navigate ethical decision-making, and build patient rapport.