Case study redesigning futures: the first ever engineering driven college of medicine? what are the key problems and iss

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Case study redesigning futures: the first ever
engineering driven college of medicine? what are the key problems
and issues?
Case:
One of society’s greatest challenges today is to improve
healthcare for more people at lower cost. To meet this challenge,
physicians cannot continue to be trained in the same way they have
been trained in the past. Instead, biomedical scientists,
engineers, physical scientists, innovators, and
physicians—nontraditional partners—must come together to develop
dramatically different models of medical education. This
collaboration will lead to the modernization of medical education
and to higher-quality education, which in turn will lead to better
healthcare. During the 1980s and 1990s, few new medical schools
were established in the United States. In 2006, growing concern
over physician shortages led the American Medical Association to
issue a statement calling for a 30 percent increase in medical
school enrollment. Since then, more than 20 new medical schools
have been founded. These new medical schools have addressed the
need for more physicians, but none of them has considered the
proposition that a different kind of physician will be required to
solve the challenges of our global healthcare needs. The University
of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in partnership with the Carle
Health System, has addressed that set of needs by instituting a
distinctive, groundbreaking, engineering-driven college of medicine
that redesigns the education of doctors and thus the delivery of
healthcare. The new college brings together seemingly different
disciplines and partners in ways that have not been possible in a
traditional medical school environment. The bold and innovative
vision of the new Carle-Illinois College of Medicine is to
establish the first research-intensive college of medicine to focus
expressly on the convergence of engineering, technology, Big Data,
and healthcare. Because this was not a retrofit or add-on to an
existing enterprise, it integrated these elements from the
beginning. Both the university and the system were at critical
junctures in their strategic plans that made the creation of a new
college appropriate at this time in their respective histories. The
university is a member of the prestigious Association of American
Universities, a society of public and private research
universities. One-third of the faculty in the university’s
internationally respected College of Engineering were already
involved in biomedical and systems engineering research. Many
bioengineers were not actually in the department of bioengineering
but spread out in different departments in different colleges
across the campus. The system—comprising the Carle Foundation
Hospital, Carle Physician Group, and Health Alliance Medical
Plan—is a vertically integrated healthcare delivery system. It is
in the middle of a major recruitment campaign, hiring 150
physicians and physician-scientists, many of whom are involved in
the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine. The hospital is ranked in
the top 10 percent of hospitals in Illinois. In 2016, its combined
outpatient and inpatient visits ranked among the highest volumes in
the state.