Physician Training for the AI Era
This Viewpoint discusses the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical education, and how physician training should change in parallel with AI use including emphasizing skills that AI makes more valuable, cultivating those it makes newly necessary, and carefully de-emphasizing those it makes less important.
Authors
- Robert M. Wachter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3226-2737)
- Jesse Burk‐Rafel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3785-2154)
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- New York University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA
- Published
- 2026-10-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2026.20340
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00