Medical education

Should the best students still choose medicine in an AI era?

For generations, medicine has attracted the academically highest-achieving students in society, and for good reason. Medicine demands extensive knowledge, scientific reasoning, and the ability to make consequential decisions under uncertainty. But medicine is changing, and radiology offers a useful lens.…

For generations, medicine has attracted the academically highest-achieving students in society, and for good reason. Medicine demands extensive knowledge, scientific reasoning, and the ability to make consequential decisions under uncertainty.

But medicine is changing, and radiology offers a useful lens. Few specialties illustrate the relationship between scientific innovation and clinical practice as clearly. MRI didn’t emerge from clinical radiology; it came from physics, mathematics, and engineering. Modern medical AI draws on …

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Should the best students still choose medicine in an AI era?