The past Monday, I happily moderated a session on internationalization of medical education ka......the topic I love and the opportunity to learn more how the med ed circle thinks and acts on it.
This exercise confirmed that introducing the panelists could be fun learning (for me and hopefully for others:)) when going out a little bit of the way to touch on some keywords that corresponded with their thinking and performances (watching their interviews on YouTube, magazines to pick whatever struck me most ka). Glancing through their presentations beforehand gave me some more understanding of what to expect with more questions to ask ka.
The onsite presentations by Prof. Suttipong Wacharasindhu (the key co-founder of the Chulalongkorn University's International Medical Education Program -- CU-MEDi) and Prof. Nijasri Charnnarong (Director of the program) shared was fantastic (they both are refined presenters kaa!) as we could listen and read between the lines, observe verbal and non-verbal behaviors, and ask quite a few questions.
My best learning is about leadership and it concerns basically the people involved. I also wish to share the following ka:
3.1 Like other circles, internationalization in medical education takes time. When a small try-out with students of high English proficiency works successfully, big bolder steps follow (not too much focused on resources like funding and national licensing!) One crucial action is to integrate other key dimensions like world trends from various lenses, cross cultural understanding, international partnerships and generation diversity.
3.2 Leaders are those with passion and purpose! They are capable of looking at the macro pictures while linking them together to align with national policy directions. They are visionary to know how the world is going and dare to take risks when they know it's about 60-70% ready! They pick their team members who have relevant capabilities and more importantly, who have mutual respect and trust.
Their leadership made me think of an interview of Dr. Bob Grossman, CEO of NYU Langone Health who was able to turnaround the hospital. He stresses these elements ka: Right people, right vision, focused driven!
3.3 In such an international program with high profile international partners and students, it's essential for leaders to make sure that medical students from their regular program have also benefited from the advantages the international program offers. This will further enhance the healthy promotion of both equality of students and quality of graduates in many ways!
3.4 In our today's AI era, humanistic experiences are even more focused. Yuval Harari has warned us early this year not to think that AI wouldn't be creative and now it's proven how AI could overtake us quite easily and could do quite close to empathy, but definitely not much yet about non-verbal behaviors!
3.5 For me, I sure value the diversity of students regarding nationalities, education backgrounds, and age. The students and the whole community sure learn from different perspectives, heightening intercultural interactions and adaptability, widening networks, and enhancing growth mindsets ka.
Sanuk and hopeful again ka. Hope you feel so too ka.
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