Core 1, Part 2

As an aspiring future medical practitioner, I am expecting to have to learn new ways to log patient data and document scientific findings. This will probably require learning new software and programs for success. Functional literacy is roughly defined as the writing and reading skills that are needed to survive in modern society. This means that in order to compete in society and in the workplace, people will need to learn new skills and programs on the digital interface in the future. This kind of functional literacy will most likely be mandatory in almost all professions.

While shadowing a Dermatologist last year, I was able to witness the top of the line medical technologies first hand. The particular office which I interned at had decided that year to go paperless, and therefore was logging all of their patient data on tablet computers. These tablet computers ran a program called Alight, which effectively recorded and stored data via hard drives on the computers. The switch to computers from paper was described by my doctor as "difficult to learn but far more efficient than paper" (Greenberg). This is just an example of the technology that I expect to learn in the future for my profession. However, I assume that by the time I am ready to learn this the technology will have changed for the better again anyway.