Meeting societal challenges through medical education and research: LKCMedicine, NTU-ICL SG Progress from Univer-Cities Conference 2016 Professor James Best Dean Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine
Societal challenges LKCMedicine must produce doctors who: • address the needs of an ageing population • are prepared for the era of precision medicine, mega data and AI • practise medicine with humility, integrity and compassion
Education Research Partnerships
Education strategy Be distinctive Draw on strengths of both parent universities Emphasise professionalism, wellbeing, collegiality/ teamwork
Achievements in Education Family medicine is prominent in our teaching and our Faculty PhD programme has attracted high proportion of Singaporeans and clinicians WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Health and Health Education announced by DG WHO 30 Jun 2019
Research strategy Collaboration >>> competition Focus on quality and national significance Invest in early career faculty
Achievements in Research Population Health and Global Health Neuroscience and Mental Health Regenerative, Reparative and Rehabilitation Medicine
Partnerships NTU • embedded • supervised • novel Imperial • distant • encouraging • interested NHG • enthusiastic • uncertain • complex
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