Q So in 2014, you became the first dean of Dell Medical School. You were intentionally reforming the curriculum. You wanted to change how doctors are trained. Why? Like, is traditional medical school broken? What, what needed to be fixed?
A Yeah, so, um, it's more, it goes back to the health system. So my realizations at, at UCSF, because I was in, um, San Francisco before, were that, uh, that we were innovating much too slowly. And healthcare, and that we weren't necessarily focused on innovations in the right areas that mattered the most for health. Um, in, in, so we weren't prioritizing the things that really mattered. And then even the things that we discovered that were important for health, we weren't integrating into practice. And so the whole system isn't meeting its full potential. And my realization was, okay, you can't take an established organization and really move it forward. It, it, it really does involve training differently, but also setting up healthcare differently. And so, you know, being able to start a new med school felt to me like a great opportunity to rethink all those, all those things about training and healthcare delivery and, and, and do it better, you know, do it for the next generation.
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