The Role of Telemedicine and Globalization in Medical Education

Abstract

This chapter aims to bring to the fore cutting-edge research on how globalization is changing medical education by e-learning, remote simulation, and new emerging technologies. In particular, the authors wish to contribute to critical thinking about the conceptualization, investigation, and theorization of how medical education is changing and how medical schools and residency programs in different countries are being transformed according to health and educational needs. In this chapter, the authors reviewed telemedicine and remote simulation and how globalization plays an essential role in it.