Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Jul 1, 2021
Two decades ago, the advent of competency-based medical education (CBME) marked a paradigm shift in assessment. Now, medical education is on the cusp of another transformation driven by advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In this a...
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Jul 1, 2021
PURPOSE: Developing medical students' clinical reasoning requires a structured longitudinal curriculum with frequent targeted assessment and feedback. Performance-based assessments, which have the strongest validity evidence, are currently not feasib...
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Jul 1, 2021
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are powerful prediction tools with immense potential in the clinical setting. There are a number of existing clinical tools that use ML, and many more are in development. Physicians are important stakeholders in the h...
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Jan 1, 2021
The practice of medicine is changing rapidly as a consequence of electronic health record adoption, new technologies for patient care, disruptive innovations that breakdown professional hierarchies, and evolving societal norms. Collectively, these ha...
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Jan 1, 2021
Estimates in a 1989 study indicated that physicians in the United States were unable to reach a diagnosis that accounted for their patient's symptoms in up to 90% of outpatient patient encounters. Many proponents of artificial intelligence (AI) see t...
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Nov 1, 2020
The methodology of deep learning, a component of machine learning and artificial intelligence, is introduced. The opportunity for this technology to automate some aspects of medical practice is reviewed. Finally, a discussion is provided on the integ...
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Oct 1, 2019
The technology at the heart of the most innovative progress in health care artificial intelligence (AI) is in a subdomain called machine learning (ML), which describes the use of software algorithms to identify patterns in very large datasets. ML has...