A global framework for artificial intelligence education in medicine: international working group recommendations
AI education in medicine remains fragmented, narrowly technical, and disconnected from healthcare realities. Through an international collaboration, we developed a framework spanning seven domains and 24 learning objectives. We reflect on what this process revealed: effective AI education must be clinically grounded, ethically integrated, and implementation-aware across the training continuum. We share key insights, tensions encountered, and lessons for educators in translating this framework into practice.
Authors
- Oded Nov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6410-2995)
- Bradley J. Erickson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7926-6095)
- Abhishek Moturu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0332-6324)
- Arwa Nada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0387-0194)
- Jamie Fairclough
- Piyush Mathur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-8767)
- Laura C. Rosella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4867-869X)
- Gemma Postill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6185-995X)
- Píetro Lió (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-5053)
- Diana Ferro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1774-7509)
- Alfonso Limon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3654-8353)
- Nathan Yung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9779-2302)
- Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8605-5392)
- Zoryana Salo
- Marianne So
- Orest Boyko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9714-2843)
- Hari Mudipalli
- Nihal Haque
- Muhammad Mamdani
- Anthony Chang
- Robert Hoyt
- Ehsan Misaghi
- Ying Wan
- Gregg Gascon
- James Barry
- Johanna Kim
- Mijanou Pham
- Ryan McAdams
- Harvey Castro
- Shane Eaton
Institutions
- Dartmouth College (US)
- OhioHealth (US)
- American Board of Internal Medicine (US)
- Children's Hospital of Orange County (US)
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Roseman University of Health Sciences (US)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- North York General Hospital (CA)
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research (CA)
- Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital (IT)
- Mayo Clinic in Arizona (US)
- Public Health Ontario (CA)
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) (CA)
- Loma Linda University Children's Hospital (US)
- The University of Texas at San Antonio (US)
- New York University (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- npj Digital Medicine
- Published
- 2026-09-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-026-03197-x
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00