If you want to know how radiologists will learn the job 10 to 20 years from now, check out how many students will learn the subject in the 2022-2023 school year.

Driven by technology, transformed by the COVID pandemic, and fine-tuned regionally by demographic shifts, children’s education is transforming into a personalized consumer or learner industry.

On the other hand, today’s school children are tomorrow’s healthcare consumers.

To keep up, radiology must accept that teaching trainees at workstations “may never again be the standard way radiology attendees teach.” Hmm.

All from the heart of modern education pioneer Stephen Wolfe Pereira, who co-founded the company behind the popular “storytelling” app Encantos.

Pereira explains his vision in a short thought-provoking article in the September issue. JACRMore [1]His co-authors are Elliott Fishman, M.D., and Stephen Lowe, M.D., radiologists at Johns Hopkins University.

Along the way, the author makes some compelling predictions about what education will soon look like. Tying together their predictions is his code of three elements: AI, digital connectivity and, of course, entertainment.

An example is shown below.