Foundation Years: A Medical Student's Take on Technology, Training and Trust

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Welcome to The Connection: Where Tech Meets Humanity in Healthcare podcast, brought to you by RLDatix. In this episode, our Medical Director, Darren Kilroy, is joined by Rose Kelly, a first-year medical student from Sheffield. She shares her journey into medicine and discusses the challenges and opportunities for the next generation of healthcare professionals. Rose and Darren talk about the impact of technology in medical education, the rise of AI, and the importance of patient-facing experience for medical students. What You’ll Learn: The value of taking a gap year to ensure you are committed to a career in medicine and the freedom it can give you to travel and gain experience. The pros and cons of technology in medical education and why it's changing the way students learn and access information. The potential pressure on future clinicians who will be required to manage a patient’s own online research and the influence of AI. Why it's so important for medical schools to start patient-facing experience early in the curriculum. How diversity is represented in medical school today. Rose Kelly is a first-year medical student at the University of Sheffield.