Speaker: Prof Shmuel Reis (Academic Head, Centre for Medical Education, Hebrew University / Hadassah, family physician, and past chair, Israeli Association for Medical Education)
Prof Shmuel Reis has worked in medical education and family medicine in Israel for over 40 years. He was based previously at the Technion Medical School, and later chaired Faculty Development and Clinical Skills at Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, where he also co-ordinated a course on the doctor in the digital age. His present research interests include studies on methods used for teaching and learning of doctoring and professionalism.
Prof Reis organised the Galilee workshops on the theme of “Medicine during the Holocaust and beyond”. He has played a leading role in developing programmes which emphasise the implications of studying the history of medicine in the Holocaust, on the basis that this provides students and doctors with a “moral compass” for navigating the future of medical practice, the inherent ethical challenges which arise, such as prejudice, consent, resource allocation, and new technologies (such as genomics). He will talk about this theme on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day 2021.
You can watch a recording of the event here.