Smye Stephen W, Frangi Alejandro F
University of Leeds School of Medicine, Leeds, UK.
University of Leeds Schools of Computing and Medicine, Leeds, UK.
Future Healthc J. 2021 Jul;8(2):e218-e223. doi: 10.7861/fhj.2021-0025.
The hospitals of the future will be shaped by scientific and technical advances made across a wide range of disciplines because complex problems in healthcare cannot be addressed successfully by a single discipline. This paper considers how interdisciplinary research is being promoted and the prospects for developing stronger and deeper collaborations between medicine, health and other disciplines, drawing on case studies from mathematics, physics and engineering. The anticipated impact of greater interdisciplinarity on clinical training and the provision of care is also reviewed. While the role and training of clinicians in the provision of care will continue to evolve, they will remain leading members of a much broader and more diverse interdisciplinary team, alert to the value of deep and sustained interdisciplinary research.
未来的医院将受到广泛学科领域取得的科学技术进步的影响，因为医疗保健中的复杂问题无法由单一学科成功解决。本文借助数学、物理和工程领域的案例研究，探讨了跨学科研究是如何得到推动的，以及医学、健康与其他学科之间建立更强大、更深入合作的前景。文中还审视了更强的跨学科性对临床培训和医疗服务提供的预期影响。虽然临床医生在提供医疗服务中的角色和培训将持续演变，但他们仍将是一个更广泛、更多样化的跨学科团队的核心成员，敏锐地意识到深入且持续的跨学科研究的价值。
