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Reimagining Medical Education in the Age of AI
Steven A Wartman1, C Donald Combs2
1President emeritus of the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC) and a sociologist, board-certified internist, and master of the American College of Physicians; and served as president of the AAHC from 2005 to 2018, and, before joining the association, he was executive vice president for academic and health affairs and dean of the school of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Johns Hopkins University and a Henry Luce Scholar in Indonesia.
Abstract:
Available medical knowledge exceeds the organizing capacity of the human mind, yet medical education remains based on information acquisition and application. Complicating this information overload crisis among learners is the fact that physicians' skill sets now must include collaborating with and managing artificial intelligence (AI) applications that aggregate big data, generate diagnostic and treatment recommendations, and assign confidence ratings to those recommendations. Thus, an overhaul of medical school curricula is due and should focus on knowledge management (rather than information acquisition), effective use of AI, improved communication, and empathy cultivation.
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