Health Professions Education Chair Roger Edwards and PhD student Emily Jerge recently took part in a podcast called, Transforming Health Education Using A.I. Insights. The nearly hour long segment explored the transformative role of artificial intelligence in health professions education and how A.I. is reshaping the field. From identifying and supporting at-risk students to enhancing interprofessional education and simulation-based learning, Edwards and Jerge spoke about cutting edge innovations, health inequities and the intersection of A.I. with public health challenges. 

"It takes time to implement A.I. well and health professions educators need to become better consumers of A.I.'s outputs,” said Edwards. “A.I. needs to be in service of educational goals first and foremost. Evaluation of A.I. outputs needs to become a core skill for faculty and a competency for the clinicians we are training now and for those already practicing as part of their continuing professional development. The challenge is that the high clinical workloads and high educational workloads make it very hard to do this—and yet we must prioritize becoming competent with teaching and using AI."

Listen to the podcast here.