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Meeting societal challenges through medical education and research: LKCMedicine, NTU-ICL SG

Professor James Best Dean Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Progress from Univer-Cities Conference 2016

Societal challenges

LKCMedicine must produce doctors who:

• address the needs of an ageing population
• are prepared for the era of precision

medicine, mega data and AI

• practise medicine with humility, integrity

and compassion

Education Research Partnerships

Education strategy

Be distinctive Draw on strengths of both parent universities Emphasise professionalism, wellbeing, collegiality/ teamwork

Achievements in Education

Family medicine is prominent in our teaching and our Faculty PhD programme has attracted high proportion of Singaporeans and clinicians WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Health and Health Education announced by DG WHO 30 Jun 2019

Research strategy

Collaboration >>> competition Focus on quality and national significance Invest in early career faculty

Achievements in Research

Population Health and Global Health Neuroscience and Mental Health Regenerative, Reparative and Rehabilitation Medicine

Partnerships

NTU

• embedded
• supervised
• novel

Imperial

• distant
• encouraging
• interested

NHG

• enthusiastic
• uncertain
• complex

LKCMedicine