Bridging the gap between the technological singularity and mainstream medicine: highlighting a course on technology and the future of medicine.

摘要: The “technological singularity” is defined as that putative point in time forecasted to occur the mid twenty-first century when machines will become smarter than humans, leading humans and merge. It hypothesized this event have a profound influence on medicine population health. This work describes new course Technology Future of Medicine developed by diverse, multi-disciplinary group faculty members at Canadian university. began continuous professional learning was later established recognized graduate course. We describe philosophy course, barriers encountered development, some idiosyncratic solutions were overcome these, including use YouTube audience retention analytics. hope report might provide useful template for other institutions attempting set up similar programs.