Doctor of the future: half engineer and half doctor

The baggage of the doctor of the future is expanding in response to the challenges of the new sector, the medical technology. The medtech sector is the future of healthcare. In Italy he gave birth to a market from the value of 16.2 billion from EUR. The doctor of the future must be enriched with new skills and further professionalism. The experts at the Medtech conference in Rome defined the role of the doctor of tomorrow in 7 points. The event was organized byCampus Bio-Medico University.

Here are the seven highlights of the most searched profile:

Today in medicine we no longer speak generically about pathologies, but we have the opportunity to know the problems of the individual patient, and technology becomes fundamental in this.

Raffaele Calabrò, Rector of the Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome

The development of innovative technologies and approaches in the biomedical field requires, first of all, the identification of the most pressing needs. The definition of the characteristics of the pathologies to be corrected and of the affected populations. Clinical validation and follow-up.

Maria Chiara Carrozza, President of the National Research Council (CNR)

In fact, the courses such as Medtech of the Bio-Medico Campus will enable students to integrate design and technological skills, today increasingly multidisciplinary and transversal, to accompany the innovation processes typical of the life sciences sectors. And the figure of the biomedical engineer can be of great help to the pharmaceutical industry, both for the development of new products, services and technologies.

Massimo Scaccabarozzi, Former President of Farmindustria