What if we educated doctors this way?

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What if we educated doctors this way?

• John Gardner, PhD, PE
• Professor of Mechanical Biomedical Engineering
• Associate Vice President
• Boise State University

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Faculty Meeting in a Medical School
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How can we define the Ideal Doctor

• Survey people
• Ask Hospital Administrators
• Ask Health Insurance Managers
• Ask CEOs of large medical care groups like St.
  Als

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Some likely features

• Good understanding of the bottom line
• Good employees
• Understand the big picture
• Have an understanding of accounting and finance
  issues

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ABET Engineering Accreditation Criteria

• Criterion 2. Program Educational Objectives
• (a) published educational objectives that are
  consistent with the mission of the institution
  and these criteria
• (b) a process that periodically documents and
  demonstrates that the objectives are based on the
  needs of the program's various constituencies

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But who are our Constituencies?
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Whats the fundamental tenet of medical ethics?

• Primum non nocere
• First, do no harm

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Whats the fundamental tentet of engineering
ethics?

• Hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of
  the public

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Wheres the public?
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What does it mean

• To hold paramount public safety
• while being a good employee ?

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Engineering Enrollments

• (A) Not enough engineers
• (B) Not enough minorities
• (C) Not enough women

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Same time, different profession

• Source Association of American Medical Colleges

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And from the lawyers
Women 2000 2009 change
Lawyers 28.9 31 7.2
In Law School 47 46.9 (0.2)
US Circuit Court 16 26.9 7.2
In ABA 28.5 33.5 17.5
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AP Course Participation
Figure F. Percent of public high school graduates
of 2000 who had taken various mathematics and
science courses in high school, by sex 2000
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• Source Engineering Trends (www.engtrends.com)

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What if

• What if we truly embraced our code of ethics?
• What if we truly Hold paramount the safety,
  health and welfare of the public?
• What if we designed our curriculum and programs
  around that central theme?
• What if we taught engineering students to solve
  Problems with a capital P instead of teaching
  them to design widgets?

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What if we educated engineers that way?