Monday Lunch Live
7 July 2025 (Video recording below)
Explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence, interprofessional education, and learner motivation
Medical education used to be simple. Students learned by studying textbooks and sitting in passive lectures. Medical school sat in isolation from other health professions. Learner motivation was assumed as part of budding professional identity.
Modern medical education has changed. Technology is rapidly evolving to include active thinking and reasoning. Hierarchies are shifting and giving way to interprofessional learning opportunities. Generation Z is here and Generation Alpha is coming, bringing with them different attitudes, attention spans, and motivations.
In this session, Chair of ASCO Education Council A/Prof Sam Brondfield will discuss the evolving roles of artificial intelligence, interprofessional education, and learner motivation in medical education. Educators must pay attention to these key issues in today's world in order to lay the groundwork for the next generation's success, as well as their own.
Chair
Associate Professor David Kok
Radiation Oncologist, Director of Training, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Course Coordinator, Masters of Cancer Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Associate Professor David Kok is the joint course convenor of the Master of Cancer Sciences and Chair of the VCCC Alliance’s Cancer Education and Training Advisory Committee. In these roles, he drives VCCC Alliance member contribution and collaboration and leads an internationally renowned education team to produce innovative, sector-leading learning materials. A radiation oncologist at Peter Mac, he also serves as Director of Peter Mac’s Moorabbin Campus and the Director of Education for Peter Mac’s Department of Radiation Oncology.
He is the chief investigator on numerous clinical and translational research trials and has published many articles relating to best practice in oncological care and contemporary medical education methods. He is also a member of the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG), Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials (MASC), the European Society of Radiation Oncology (ESTRO), and the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE).
Speaker
Associate Professor Sam Brondfield MD MAEd FASCO
Oncologist and Chief of Inpatient Oncology Consult Service, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Chair of ASCO Education Council
Associate Professor Brondfield completed all of his medical training at UCSF, where he works as a hospital-based oncologist and clinician educator. He obtained a Master of Arts in Education from UC Berkeley and will begin a PhD in Health Professions Education through UCSF and the University of Utrecht in 2026. His mission is to educate generalists and trainees in solid oncology. His research focuses on cognitive load and subspecialty training.
Associate Professor Brondfield is Chair of the ASCO Education Council and as well as founder and former Chair of ASCO’s Medical Education Community of Practice, an international group focused on medical education in oncology. He greatly enjoys teaching oncology to students, residents, fellows, and practicing physicians. Outside of work, he sings in the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
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