What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran
It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first placeMon 10 Aug 2026 08.00 EDTLast modified on Mon 10 Aug 2026 08.06 EDTShareIn healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who are using these tools before they’ve built their own clinical judgment? The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it.
- ▪It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first placeMon 10 Aug 2026 08.00 EDTLast modified on Mon 10 Aug 2026 08.06 EDTShareIn healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingl
- ▪But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows – who are using these tools before they’ve built their own clinical judgment?
- ▪The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it.
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‘Patients will need doctors who can stand apart from the machine long enough to know when it is wrong, incomplete, or right for the wrong reason.’ Photograph: gorodenkoff/Getty Images/iStockphotoView image in fullscreen‘Patients will need doctors who can stand apart from the machine long enough to know when it is wrong, incomplete, or right for the wrong reason.’ Photograph: gorodenkoff/Getty Images/iStockphotoOpinionHealthWhat happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment?Simar Bajaj and Joseph SakranAI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason.
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