I have heard you eloquently make the case that the present practice of medicine is flawed in that it primarily depends on the physician\u2019s limited memory and processing capacity when dealing with complex patient issues. What is your solution?<\/em><\/p>\nLW: I have spent more than 30 years developing and implementing what I have called \u201cknowledge couplers.\u201d Medical knowledge is used to select and analyze patient data, coupling the data in a matrix fashion with medical knowledge developed through research. The output of this coupling process is an organized display of options and evidence. …<\/p>\n
… any automation that reliably couples patient data with the world\u2019s medical research will be dramatically better than the unaided human mind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The “knowledge couplers” are to be used, he says, in conjunction with the POMR and reform of medical education and credentialing.<\/em> (I’d be laughed out of the discussion circuit if I proposed that – will Dr. Weed be marginalized for it?)<\/p>\nAnd this:<\/p>\n
\nYou have expressed concerns with both the type of individual accepted in medical school as well as how medical students are taught in their first two years. Could you tell our readers what you see as the issues and the implications to preparing these students to practice medicine?<\/em><\/p>\nLW: Today, students are recruited on the basis of how well they memorize and regurgitate facts. In the future because knowledge will be in information technology tools instead of in heads, students should be trained in the reliability of performance of given tasks that will be part of a complete medical care system. Students should be selected for their hands-on skills and interpersonal skills and not on the basis of their memory and regurgitation of facts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And:<\/p>\n
\nYour writings make a very compelling argument for these changes in medical education. Yet, such changes are largely absent from health reform debates. Why do you think there has been such a complete lack of a dialogue on the subject? If educators disagree, why aren\u2019t they saying so?<\/em><\/p>\nLW: The system that I just described is very threatening to many educators who are now in the business of moving knowledge through heads instead of using information technology such as knowledge coupling tools. They are judging students on how much they know instead of how well they perform in a well-defined and audited system of care. …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Enough – if you’re interested in this examination of the very nature of a doctor’s work, please read the whole article, and we’ll discuss.<\/p>\n
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The excellent ICMCC daily newsletter just alerted me to this item from Permanente Journal:\u00a0Interview with Lawrence Weed, MD —\u00a0The Father of the Problem-Oriented Medical Record Looks Ahead. I hope to absorb it in the next day or two, and I invite people who know this history to do the same. It’s deep, and it’s connected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[367,5,59,62,4236,2304],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-records","category-ptdoc-co-care","category-policy-issues","category-reforming-healthcare","category-shared-decision-making","category-why-pm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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