12/03/2026
I will have the great honor and privilege to speak about “Medical Education in the Age of ICT and AI: Rethinking Learning and Teaching Beyond Directed Instruction” for the Erasmus+ project METIS (Future-Proofing Medical Education through Emerging Technologies for Enhanced Social Resilience).
I will talk about how “Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and especially Artificial intelligence (AI), fundamentally changes the conditions under which learning and teaching in higher education take place. When access to information, explanations, and procedural guidance becomes instantly available, traditional models of directed instruction centered on knowledge transmission lose much of their educational rationale. This transformation is particularly consequential for medical and health sciences education, where professional competence depends not only on knowledge acquisition but on clinical reasoning, ethical judgment, collaboration, and adaptive expertise. This keynote examines how ICT, and specifically AI, reshapes learning environments, student practices, and academic expectations in higher education. Drawing on socio-constructivist perspectives on learning and teaching, the talk argues that the central task of medical education is shifting from teaching students what to know toward designing learning environments in which students learn how to think, interpret, decide, and act under uncertainty.”
This lecture introduces students to the role of artificial intelligence in medical diagnostic assistance. It explores core AI concepts, including machine
