How to Fix the Global Physician Shortage - Change Medical Education | Dr. Peter Horneffer | TEDxHHL

How can we use modern tools for medical education? Dr. Peter Horneffer shares his journey on how he was able to bring a Paradigm Shift in medical education. Dr Horneffer has been working to advance medical education as a passion formany years. After attending Yale as an undergraduate and Johns Hopkins for medical school and residency, he practiced medicine as a cardiac surgeon in Maryland, USA. In mid-career, he was asked to help bring medical education to the underserved in the Pacific area. He accepted the position as Dean of a medical school, based in Western Samoa, which he led to be the first accredited in the world to use an entirely online-delivered didactic curriculum and educate students simultaneously on multiple continents. Today he is helping evolve medical education models and serves as Executive Dean for a small Jamaican school (AAIMS) to help improve its teaching and train physicians for an underserved part of Jamaica. At Lecturio, he serves as Director of Medical Education, helping shape its innovative offering which includes supporting development initiatives in Africa and Afghanistan. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx