AI in Healthcare February 3, 2025
Medical students are broadly familiar with digital health technologies and, relatedly, believe AI will play a crucial role in the future of medicine.
However, their hands-on experience with dHealth is limited—and their initial readiness for real-world medicine is significantly tied to two factors. These are a.) their comfort level with the constituent parts of evidence-based medicine and b.) their perceptions of AI’s burgeoning importance to healthcare.
These are among the key findings of researchers who surveyed 1,400 medical students at the University of Montreal’s medical school.
After analyzing 177 of the responses, the team concluded that North American medical education is due for a redesign. To adequately prepare up-and-coming generations of physicians for modern practice, the authors suggest,...