Medscape January 20, 2026
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers benefits in medicine but poses risks to medical trainees, including skill loss and outsourcing reasoning, potentially undermining their clinical competence and patient safety.
Fares Alahdab, MD, is an associate professor of biomedical informatics, biostatistics, epidemiology, and cardiology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri, and he is one of the authors of a BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine editorial that examines the potential risks associated with the use of generative AI in medical education.
Speaking with Medscape’s Portuguese edition, Alahdab said, “Most of the early literature and enthusiasm surrounding generative AI in medicine has emphasized its advantages, while drawbacks have largely been treated as a secondary issue or framed as a generic caution.”
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