Hong Kong’s new medical school will focus on training “future-embracing” doctors to adopt emerging technologies to treat patients, the head of its host university has said.
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Professor Nancy Ip Yuk-yu, president of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said on Saturday that HKUST would use its strength in research, especially in artificial intelligence (AI), to train future doctors.
“AI will have a very important impact on healthcare and could bring another round of industrial revolution,” Ip told a television show.
“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.”
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A government task group announced on Tuesday that HKUST had been chosen to run the new medical school. The decision concluded an eight-month race involving HKUST, Baptist University and Polytechnic University (PolyU) competing to operate the new school.