MedPage Today December 1, 2024
— Artificial intelligence should be used differently in training and medical practice
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of education, Linda McMahon, will be wrestling with growing uncertainty around education in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) in the years ahead if she’s confirmed by the Senate. In medical education in particular, AI presents new challenges in how to wisely educate future doctors.
AI tools that now assist experienced physicians could prove detrimental to doctors-in-training unless properly managed and guided by medical schools. Leaders in medical education must quickly and effectively distinguish between the use of AI in medicine and the use of AI in medical education.
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