IVORY TOWERS OF ACADEMIC MEDICINE

THE TEACHING of medicine and surgery has occurred in all millennia and all civilizations architecture from the world over with a spin on how it might change over the years. How would operation theaters and hospitals of the future look like? As donated, stiff, formalin-soaked corpses and adapt the world of modern imaging technology into our operating rooms, and exchange our model trimmers for 3D printers, medical architecture has been

This was not an easy topic to tackle. We sought input from IAOMS members from all over the world to help us find unique medical architecture. As with most issues of Face to face, I am sure we will find out after publishing that we completely missed out on something spectacular, somewhere out there. This is an inherent flaw of amateur reporting for this publication. Mia culpa! The error of omission seems to be our curse as an editorial team!

Finally, as OMS trainees have started resorting to open access artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT for scholarly article searches and completing their thesis without an ounce of plagiarism or typographical errors, I took the liberty to ask an AI program to write my post-issue editorial piece -” Afterthought”.

I asked this AI program to give me a mini thesis on the future of surgical education. It gave me a few succinct and possibly very accurate paragraphs on what it found on the world wide web in my writing style. Make sure you check it out! The future it turns out is both promising and scary at the same time. ■

Deepak Krishnan EDITOR IN CHIEF