AI made me a better doctor. It may be making doctors-in-training worse
I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do – and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.
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Current doctors-to-be may be the most adversely affected generation when it comes to AI.
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Rachael Bedard
I have a confession: AI is making me a better doctor. And I worry that it’s making doctors-in-training worse.
Amid our recent doom cycle about whether AI will lead to extreme societal harms, a parallel anxiety has taken hold in medicine about whether artificial intelligence will one day replace physicians. In the context of that panic, I feel a little sheepish admitting that I already use the technology in my practice all the time – especially since I harbour anxieties about what its availability means for my students and residents, and therefore for the profession at large.