Experts discussing on ‘Educating India’ at Times Now Summit 2024.
New Delhi: The day 2 of ‘Times Now Summit 2024- India Unstoppable’ witnessed a thorough discussion on the ways for ‘Educating India‘ in the current scenarios and going forward. Taking part in the discussion Ram Ganapathi, CMO, Amrita Hospital, Faridabad, explained the steps his institution is carrying to ensure healthcare education and empowerment of future Indian professionals in the healthcare industry.
“We have educational institutions associated with hospitals. We also facilitate cross-departmental research on an ongoing basis. During COVID, our nanotechnology department collaborated with the clinical department of the hospital to develop a mask that was significantly more effective than the N95, at a much-reduced rate…” he said.
Explaining about the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will play, Dr. Balakrishnan Shankar, Dean Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, said that AI tools and technologies are available for students now, and they have a variety of programs for that as well. “That skillset has greatly enabled the startup scene. We have students coming up now, even in the first year or second year, with ideas to start new companies…”
Shankar said that skill development is something really huge and one needs to have skills. “It’s very difficult to predict now what kind of skills that a person needs today. AI , robotics, IOT, Cloud commuting, data coding, these are the skills that are going to be needed,” he further said.
Speaking of AI and technology that the medical students too need to be aware of, Amrita Hospital CMO, Ram Ganapathi said doctors will require knowledge of what the patients might ask which the latter has received from an AI tool or from some other place. Ganapathi went on to urge people to refrain from searching for their own diagnosis and let the doctors do it.
Dr. Balakrishnan meanwhile said that with the development in the technology, the division of branch of engineering have crumbled and a more “interdisciplinary” approach is required.
