“I Never Look At Anyone’s School Grades When I Consider Them For A Job” -Founder Of RETINA-AI Health Says On LinkedIn

An health care expert named Stephen Odaibo and CEO & Founder of RETINA-AI Health has shared a lengthy post on his LinkedIn platform explaining why he doesn’t look at anyone’s school grades when he considers them for a job.

See his post below:

WHAT IS A GOOD EDUCATION TODAY?

Before sharing my actual take on this, let me provide some background. I came to the United States from Nigeria (“Naija”) when I was 17 years old. And when I was 21 years old I completed a Masters Degree in Mathematics at UAB.

Then while still an International student, I went on to Duke University School of Medicine on a full scholarship — the 3rd highest ranked Medical School in the U.S. then and now — where I topped the class as #1 in Neurology and #1 in Pediatrics, and took time out to get a Masters degree in Computer Science.

Today, I am a practicing retina specialist running a #healthcare #AI company, RETINA-AI Health, Inc. Even as CEO and Chief scientist of a Post Series A Medical Device #AI start-up, I still personally write a ton of code. Furthermore, I still see patients and do procedures in the clinic, and I have most recently become a world expert on medical device AI regulation and development.

I am deeply grateful for my education and experiences, which I can assure you are unequivocally unique globally.

I give God all the glory. Despite my academic background — or perhaps because of it — I never look at anyone’s school grades when I consider them for a job. Why?

This is not an attempt to downplay academic achievement or peoples’ personal accomplishments. I believe it is very appropriate and important to celebrate academic achievement. However, the reason we do not look at school grades is because the current education system does not prepare people to enter into an actively innovative environment in which they have to solve high stakes problems, learn many new things at an astronomical rate on their own, and quickly understand the constraints (and opportunities) of highly regulated and rapidly evolving industries.

So instead of looking at prior school grades, we care that members of our team are hard working, mission-minded, and collaborative people of good character, who have learned how to learn on their own, learned how to think critically and independently, and learned how to solve problems.

Information archiving, retrieval, and even AI assistance has already made it such that rote recall of facts is much less valuable today than it was in the past. And this trend will only become more true with time.

So Universities should definitely invest time trying to understand why companies like RETINA-AI Health, Inc. do not look at the grades universities assign right now. Universities should partner with innovative companies to jointly assess how the university curriculum and overall approach needs to change, so that university grades may start to become valuable indicators of success and fitness for a rapidly changing world.

Do not outsource your education to any person or institution. It is your personal responsibility.

What do you think a good general education should entail today?

My next post, Part 3 in the series, is “21st century self-learning tips.”

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Source: Stephen Odaibo|LinkedIn

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