AI in Healthcare January 28, 2025
Generative AI has a bright future in medical education. That goes not only for medical schools but also for postgraduate settings in which residents and fellows do most of their learning while also caring for patients.
“A core tenet of graduate medical education, or GME, is ‘graded authority and responsibility,’ where trainees progressively gain autonomy until they achieve the skills to practice independently,” several advanced GME trainees point out in a paper published this month in Frontiers in Medicine. “Additionally, trainees are expected to become ‘physician scholars.’”
What does GenAI have to do with any of that? As it turns out, plenty. The paper succinctly summarizes the relevant peer-reviewed literature on the subject and comments on risks as well...