HJNO May/Jun 2019

Healthcare Journal of new orleans I  MAY / JUN 2019 15 Hamm We collaborate on a reasonable amount of research, we work together in the LCRC, and we share a lot of services at UMC. Editor What are you hearing from students and faculty? Hamm I think one of the big things these days is that medical practice, in some ways, has become more stressful, leading to burn- out more often. This probably has many ori- gins, but one of them is that electronic medi- cal records, although they have many great features, actually require a lot of personal work by the physicians themselves. Burn- out is a big issue among physicians and stu- dents these days. Many people are looking at solutions, but there are no silver bullets right now. Editor What do you see as the future of healthcare, and how can Tulane help design for this future? Hamm The really rapid changes are in the science of medicine, and Tulane is playing a big role in that. Information technology is a part of it, so by staying on the lead- ing edge of medicine we can deliver to the students what is coming. It is clear that medicine will keep changing, so you have to prepare students to be able to change as medicine changes. Knowledge today will be replaced by other knowledge in five or ten years, so you need to teach students how to approach medical literature, and how to approach the knowledge and concepts that are changing. n “It is clear that medicine will keep changing, so you have to prepare students to be able to change as medicine changes.”