Hong Kong’s new medical school will focus on coaching “future-embracing” doctors to undertake rising applied sciences to deal with sufferers, the head of its host college has stated.
“AI will have a very important impact on healthcare and could bring another round of industrial revolution,” Ip instructed a tv present.
“Doctors embracing the future should not only have clinical capabilities but also embrace and adopt emerging technologies to treat patients.
“Doctors we train will understand the importance of technologies and have the ability to use them so that they can tackle different medical difficulties.”
A authorities activity group introduced on Tuesday that HKUST had been chosen to run the new medical faculty. The choice concluded an eight-month race involving HKUST, Baptist University and Polytechnic University (PolyU) competing to function the new faculty.