What I think it means to be a medical student in the wake of AI

KevinMD March 23, 2023
Jackson J. McCue

As the COVID class, entering medical school in 2020, we have seen our fair share of paradigm-shifting moments in medicine.

• The pandemic and response
• The overturn of Roe v. Wade
• The transition of Step 1 from scored, and largely dictative of what future specialty one can match into, to pass/fail

Even with that last transition, It still took me a couple of months of studying to consistently pass Step 1. Less than a year later, it took ChatGPT almost no time to pass the test. Is it dramatic to say that the didactic portion of our medical school experience has quickly become replaceable?

I don’t know but the cat is out of the bag. AI has been quietly...

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