Medscape December 31, 2025
Any doctor knows that the road to clinical licensure is long and winding. After medical school, it requires internship, residency, fellowships, written exams, and continuing education credits.
Internist and researcher Eric Bressman, MD, MHSP, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, is deeply familiar with this process.
It’s why Bressman and his colleagues proposed, in a recent JAMA Internal Medicine article, creating a pathway similar to physician clinical licensure to help regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine.
As with physicians, AI’s “road to licensure” would include rigorous training before release, as well as supervision while in use.
“These AI tools are being used actually pretty widely, but at the same time, they are...







