Adrienne Torda's guest appearances

Adrienne Torda

UNSW Centre for Ideas

QS In Conversation Podcast

Chuck Klosterman

Ashton Applewhite

Pankaj Mishra

Stephen Fry

Thomas Piketty

Paul Bloom

Rutger Bregman

Rowan Williams

Julia Gillard

Daniel Dennett

Kate Devlin

Angela Saini

Rob Smith

Angela Nagle

Germaine Greer

OwlTail

Medical education during COVID-19 is highlighting the opportunities and barriers of online and distance learning. While access has increased, the in-person requirements of becoming a physician have fallen away.Dr Adrienne Torda, Associate Dean, Education and Innovation, Faculty of Medicine UNSW Sydney, discusses what online medical education looks like and how we should prepare for a post-COVID world. 

Medical education during COVID-19 is highlighting the opportunities and barriers of online and distance learning. While access has increased, the in-person requirements of becoming a physician have fallen away. Dr Adrienne Torda, Associate Dean, Education and Innovation, Faculty of Medicine UNSW Sydney, discusses what online medical education looks like and how we should prepare for a post-COVID world.

Episode 11: Taking Medical Education Online with Dr Adrienne Torda

We each have personalised genome analysis at birth, and now robot doctors perform our operations. So, do we even need human doctors? Or will they need to be even MORE human?Associate Professor Adrienne Torda is Associate Dean of Education and Innovation in the Faculty of Medicine. She is an award-winning educator, innovator and practicing clinician. As such, she is immersed in both the rapidly changing worlds of clinical medicine and tertiary education.This talk and interview are part of Unsomnia: a series of short talks for restless minds.Tackling the issues that keep us up at night, imagining the inconceivable and envisioning the future, UNSW researchers have just 10 minutes each to explain what life we will be living in the future.To celebrate the 70th anniversary of UNSW Sydney, researchers were asked to take stock of what society used to be, fast forward to today’s world and look ahead another 70 years.Hosted by Rob Brooks.

We each have personalised genome analysis at birth, and now robot doctors perform our operations. So, do we even need human doctors? Or will they need to be even MORE human? Associate Professor Adrienne Torda is Associate Dean of Education and Innovation in the Faculty of Medicine. She is an award-winning educator, innovator and practicing clinician. As such, she is immersed in both the rapidly changing worlds of clinical medicine and tertiary education. This talk and interview are part of Unsomnia: a series of short talks for restless minds. Tackling the issues that keep us up at night, imagining the inconceivable and envisioning the future, UNSW researchers have just 10 minutes each to explain what life we will be living in the future. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of UNSW Sydney, researchers were asked to take stock of what society used to be, fast forward to today’s world and look ahead another 70 years. Hosted by Rob Brooks.

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