Today, the revolutions in molecular biology and in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) constitute key enablers to re-assess old problems under the new health paradigm.ĭuring few exhilarating decades, in the middle of the twentieth century, it seemed the world might have a reprieve from some major diseases. However, it had to be abandoned because of the lack of necessary data and tools. Systems thinking approach is not new to biomedicine, having been historically applied in the physiological sciences. Finally we suggest a roadmap to the future: a series of recommendations and actions aimed at transforming practice, research, and education, with the fundamental objective of sustaining and enhancing our capacity for biomedical innovation which constitutes a key element for economic prosperity and social well-being. To this end, we analyze the Biohealth Computing program for Master and PhD students, as an example of educational and training program aiming to produce translational researchers aligned with the new health paradigm. The latter addresses the question of what our global world should seek as objectives of biomedical education and innovation in the 21 st Century, recognizing that these must change significantly to address rapidly changing needs and priorities.Īchievement of major breakthroughs in biomedicine depends on rapid adaptation of training schemes and on long-term investment in cutting-edge research. More specifically, we consider the implications for biomedical innovation from three perspectives: (i) Social context (Section: The social context) (ii) Scientific discipline (Section: Systems Medicine and workforce preparation) and (iii) Educational and training perspective (Section: Systems Medicine post-graduate education: the need for multidisciplinary collaboration). The purpose of the manuscript is to pull together the principal findings and recommendations of the various reports and publications concerning the paradigm shift in health taking into account an analysis of the changing nature of the interactions among health practice, research, and education. But, scientists are increasingly aware that this "bench-to-bedside" approach shall really be a two-way system providing a fluent and efficient interplay between healthcare and basic biomedical research. Growing barriers and increasing complexities have made difficult to translate new knowledge to the bedside. ![]() Discoveries in Health Sciences classically begin at "the bench", with basic research, and then progress to the clinical level, or patient's "bedside".
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