HJBR May/Jun 2019

Healthcare Journal of BATON ROUGE I  MAY / JUN 2019 35 What are you hearing from students and faculty? I think one of the big things these days is that medical practice, in some ways, has become more stressful, leading to burn- out more often. This probably has many origins, but one of them is that electronic medical records, although they have many great features, actually require a lot of per- sonal work by the physicians themselves. Burnout is a big issue among physicians and students these days. Many people are looking at solutions, but there are no silver bullets right now. What do you see as the future of health- care, and how can Tulane help design for this future? The really rapid changes are in the sci- ence of medicine, and Tulane is playing a big role in that. Information technology is a part of it, so by staying on the leading edge of medicine we can deliver to the stu- dents what is coming. It is clear that med- icine will keep changing, so you have to prepare students to be able to change as medicine changes. Knowledge today will be replaced by other knowledge in five or ten years, so you need to teach students how to approach medical literature, and how to approach the knowledge and concepts that are changing. n “It is clear that medi- cine will keep changing, so you have to prepare students to be able to change as medicine changes.”