A course in data driven tech med anthropology: How to play nice with others

Getting ideas to patients is an interprofessional and transdisciplinary endeavor so you will have to learn how to play nice with others to be successful.

Doctors don't play nice with each other, let alone those in other disciplines, like data scientists and bioengineers. It's the culture, stupid.

Here are some reasons why they should.

A solution might be a mandatory course in data driven tech med entrepreneurship anthropology co-taught by an interdisciplinary faculty in medical, bioengineering and computer science programs.

The learning objectives of the course are to provide the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies to play nice with those outsides of their field of interest. The course has two parts:

Part 1: Cultural anthropology

Cultural anthropology, a major division of anthropology that deals with the study of culture in all of its aspects and that uses the methods, concepts, and data of archaeology , ethnography and ethnology, folklore, and linguistics in its descriptions and analyses of the diverse peoples of the world.

Part 2: Forensic anthropology

Forensic anthropology is a special sub-field of physical anthropology (the study of human remains) that involves applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to solving criminal cases. When human remains or a suspected burial are found, forensic anthropologists are called upon to gather information from the bones and their recovery context to determine who died, how they died, and how long ago they died. ?Forensic anthropologists specialize in analyzing hard tissues such as bones. With their training in archaeology, they are also knowledgeable about excavating buried remains and meticulously recording the evidence.?

This session will be a deep dive into why cultures kill good ideas and who's responsible.

Sessions will include:

1. How to talk data, engineering and medicine without an accent
2. Networking for introverts
3. How to tell doctor and engineer jokes
4. The speed of trust
5. Dealing with difficult collaborators
6. How to divorce your cofounder
7. Cultural competencies
8. Design thinking for dummies
9. Edupreneurship: How to find shelf space in your curriculum
10. Forced Fun at Conferences: Hard Pass or All In?

Sign up now since attendance is limited. You don't need a therapist. You need an anthropologist.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Entrepreneurs on Substack