Lancet Digital Health: How can artificial intelligence transform the training of medical students and physicians?

7 October, 2025

Here is a new viewpoint paper in The Lancet Digital Health.

CITATION: How can artificial intelligence transform the training of medical students and physicians?

Yilin Ning et al. Lancet Digital Health 2025

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(25)00082-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

SUMMARY

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, hold promise for transforming medical education and physician training in response to increasing health-care demands and shortages in the global health-care workforce. Meanwhile, challenges remain in the effective and equitable integration of AI technology into medical education and physician training worldwide...

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