The Future of Physician Executives?(Part 2: Health Care Futures‪)‬

THE PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE: HOW WILL MEDICAL education change in the next five to 10 years? LeTourneau: We're going to see a big change toward just-in-time or point-of-service medical education, if you will, where physicians or caregivers go to the Internet and get the information when they need it. I think we also will start to see more people not traveling for the bulk of their education, but doing it on their computers or by teleconferencing or video satellite links because its much more efficient. There still will be what I think of as vacation education, where you go to Mazatlan and you take a course and spend your afternoons on the beach. But the bulk of the education will come to the learner, rather than the learner going to it.