Preparing Medical Students for the Impact of Artificial Intelligence

Today, emerging technologies of the such as artificial intelligence, gene editing, nanotechnology, and the blockchain are being explored as ways to fundamentally "disrupt" medicine and healthcare. Despite the promises of such technologies, implementing this kind of disruption has presented countless unintended challenges. Given, first and foremost, the Hippocratic duties of healthcare providers to'do no harm', it is essential that the role of these emerging technologies in medicine is carefully scrutinized by practitioners that understand and can think critically about them. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be broadly defined as the ability for a machine to perform human-like tasks after learning from experience. AI is poised to introduce significant changes to medicine and healthcare.