STAT December 30, 2025
Some medical schools and health systems are still training students for the past
Ask most physicians today, and they’ll describe some version of this scene: In the middle of an appointment, a patient says, “I asked ChatGPT about the treatment you recommended.”
A few years ago, doctors might have bristled. Today, this is the new reality. And yet, it’s exactly what tens of thousands of medical students and residents applying to programs this fall have been forbidden to do.
As an academic physician and a medical school professor, I watch schools and health systems around the country wrestle with an uncomfortable truth: Health care is training doctors for a world that no longer exists. There are some forward-thinking institutions....
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