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Considerations & Opportunities

Collage of three scenes: On the left, a group of three people, two women and one man, collaborate on a laptop. In the center, a pipette deposits liquid into a laboratory container. On the right, healthcare professionals wearing masks assist a patient.

Considerations & Challenges

  • Demographic shifts
  • Aging workforce, healthcare pressures
  • Post-pandemic “future of work” (and study)
  • Technology impacts on education, research, administration, and healthcare
  • Resource constraints for education, research, and health: people, money, space
  • Increased requirements for large-scale collaborations
  • Declines in democratic institutions, trust in science
  • Economic, social and geopolitical volatility
  • Climate change

Opportunities & Strengths

  • Strengths in our people, education programs and research
  • Inter-professional by tradition, intention and structure
  • Collaboration across research and clinical spheres
  • Scientific and scholarly advances grounded in a humanistic tradition
  • Welcoming to diverse groups, responsive to societal needs
  • Pedagogical innovation, strengths in simulation
  • Excellent core teaching hospitals and strong research institutes
  • Global presence and outlook, strong local networks
  • AI-based health care education and delivery

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