Technological innovations like Artificial Intelligence (AI) are exerting profound changes on the way people live and work. It is impacting all economies, societies and disciplines of knowledge, including how, what, why and where physicians need to best practice medicine and serve their patients. However, change is not only about the mere availability of such innovative technologies, but rather requires soft skills to get better connection with the patients, professionals, organizations and other agents concerning the health processes. The main objective of AIIS is to contribute to improve European HEIs’ offer in the field of medicine by providing a comprehensive programme for medical students, where AI, innovation, intrapreneurship and soft skills will play a key role, and which will be largely disseminated for its integration into universities’ curricula.AIIS proposal is built along three main axes:-A training programme anchored in social and market realities. Making full acknowledgement of latest technical innovations and the best learning methods to address them, as well as targets perceptions on the topic prior to the design of a comprehensive learning journey, training materials and challenges.- An individual and collaborative training programme developed and piloted relying on two main training needs identified:o Artificial intelligence (AI).o Soft skills, intrapreneurship and innovation. This training will be delivered making use of an innovative methodology mixing online contents and collaborative work to answer challenges (health challenges related with AI), making it flexible and attractive for students.-A long-term proposal designed in a way to enable insertion in students’ curricula. A wide network of HEIs, Research centres and companies will be created, and the project will foster public/private collaborations and partnerships. A key result of the project will be an exploitation plan aimed at mainstreaming the AIIS programme to the AIIS network.
The main aim of this project was the adjustment of the training curriculum of medical students for a new emerging model of care, where AI, innovation, soft skills and transfer to society will play a key role. Specific objectives are:O1. Prepare the future of medical professionalsO2. Improve confidence of healthcare in patients and society.O3. Contribute to the development of better AI based and innovative healthcare solutionsO4. Improve quality of training in AI at medical schools
AI is a set of technologies designed to interpret data, understand, learn, and solve problems. In the context of healthcare, there is a growing demand for better and more personalized treatment at hospitals and other health institutions. Although, more information from each patient is collected, it is hard for the medical staff to manage such amount of data.AIIS was motivated by the desire to answer the observed need skilled healthcare professionals able to increase the trust in technologies.
<< Background >> AI is a set of technologies designed to interpret data, understand, learn, and solve problems. In the context of healthcare, there is a growing demand for better and more personalized treatment at hospitals and other health institutions. Although, more information from each patient is collected, it is hard for the medical staff to manage such amount of data.AIIS was motivated by the desire to answer the observed need skilled healthcare professionals able to increase the trust in technologies. << Objectives >> The main aim of this project was the adjustment of the training curriculum of medical students for a new emerging model of care, where AI, innovation, soft skills and transfer to society will play a key role. Specific objectives are:O1. Prepare the future of medical professionalsO2. Improve confidence of healthcare in patients and society.O3. Contribute to the development of better AI based and innovative healthcare solutionsO4. Improve quality of training in AI at medical schools << Implementation >> AIIS was implemented during 3 years, from November 2020 until October 2023. It involved 9 partners from 5 countries, including HEIs, Companies and 1 research institution. All collaborated together to implement the project, starting with a preliminary research, then the development of material and their testing, and exploitation. Our staff also participated to 5 Learning mobilities and 3 transnational meeting, and widely disseminated the project in each country. << Results >> The main results of the project are:-A transnational research on medical students needs-Development of a training course, available on an online Collaborative Learning Interface-A set of challenges based on real life situation-This material was tested and 101 students completed the course achieving a high level of satisfaction-We elaborated an exploitation plan to increase the scope of AIIS. At this moment, 18 universities and 6 companies signed letters of interest to join our network.