Keynote topic
Medicine: Past and Future keynote speaker
Published title: A Look Back Through the Rearview Mirror and a Glimpse Ahead
Looking back at medical progress to ask what might come next.
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The conversation
This published programme surveys major developments in medicine and considers what the coming decades might bring. It is a broad physician-educator’s perspective: an invitation to reflect on how ideas become evidence, how clinical practice changes, and how predictions should be approached with humility. For a medical association it may provide a wide-angle keynote alongside specialist sessions; for students it can connect the history of medicine with questions about their future work. For programme planning, share the meeting theme and ask which historical developments and future questions are in the current abstract.
Discussion themes
- 01Landmark changes in medicine
- 02From scientific discovery to practice
- 03Uncertainty in forecasting the future
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