Inside Aesthetics Ep 117 The Future of Medical Education – Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality & AI | Professor Shafi Ahmed
But outside of his day job, Professor Ahmed has a much more extensive role in health care provision, being one of the top 20 global influencers in digital health and innovation. He advises the UK government on the 'Long-Term Plan' for health care and was awarded the Future NHS Award by members of Parliament. He is also the civilian advisor for the British Armed Forces in General Surgery.
He has helped design and implement surgical education programmes in over 20 countries including conflict zones. Recently he was commissioned by the Abu Dhabi government to help digitalise and innovate their health care system for the future.
Professor Ahmed has the unique accolade of being the world's most watched surgeon, having streamed live operations using 'Google Glass', 'SnapChat Spectacles' and live on British national television. These events allowed tens of thousands of students to learn across the world live and simultaneously. He was also the first surgeon to operate using 'Microsoft Hololens', collaborating on a live case with the avatars of colleague surgeons who were actually based in different continents.
If that wasn't enough, Professor Ahmed co-founded Medical Realities, a virtual reality medical education company. Here he is pioneering ways of teaching the surgeons of the future including the use of haptic feedback gloves – with implications for how the practical skills of medical professionals are learnt including aesthetic doctors and injectors.
00:00 Introduction 01:04 Meet Professor Shafi Ahmed 03:25 Career Shift From Surgery to Innovation 07:03 Why Doctors Need to Reinvent Themselves 10:59 The Spark That Led to Medical Technology Work 13:31 First Live Surgery Stream Using Wearable Tech 18:27 Scaling Medical Education Globally 21:18 Using Virtual Reality to Train Surgeons 26:25 Social Media and Democratizing Medical Learning 30:08 Bringing Global Experts Into the Operating Room 33:29 Resistance to Innovation in Medicine 36:15 Managing Risk While Pushing New Ideas 40:13 Applying VR and AR to Aesthetic Training 42:46 Remote Mentoring and Managing Complications 47:06 Learning From Global Healthcare Systems 52:09 Thinking Exponentially in Medicine and Business 01:01:45 Limited Resources and Smarter Healthcare Delivery 01:08:49 Building Medical Realities and VR Education Platforms 01:16:38 Understanding VR, AR and Mixed Reality 01:20:09 AI in Healthcare and the Future of Diagnosis 01:24:30 Lessons From the Pandemic and Rapid Innovation 01:28:55 Adoption Challenges and Change Management 01:32:40 Future of Healthcare Technology and Final Wrap Up