{"id":24336,"date":"2026-08-10T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/what-happens-when-medical-students-rely-on-ai-and-never-develop-their-own-judgment-simar-bajaj-and-joseph-sakran\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:37:20","slug":"what-happens-when-medical-students-rely-on-ai-and-never-develop-their-own-judgment-simar-bajaj-and-joseph-sakran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/what-happens-when-medical-students-rely-on-ai-and-never-develop-their-own-judgment-simar-bajaj-and-joseph-sakran\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when medical students rely on AI \u2013 and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI\u2019s danger isn\u2019t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It\u2019s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place<\/p>\n

In healthcare, there\u2019s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept<\/a> as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees \u2013 medical students, residents and fellows \u2013 who are using these tools before they\u2019ve built their own clinical judgment? The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be.<\/p>\n

OpenEvidence, essentially an AI chatbot for clinicians, has given this concern its most concrete form. About two-thirds of US doctors<\/a> actively use OpenEvidence, asking about puzzling symptoms, drug interactions, and clinical guidelines, getting responses within seconds, anchored in the latest research. Trainees, unsurprisingly, have also begun to use this AI tool in many of the same ways \u2013 but at a far more formative stage.<\/p>\n

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\nAI\u2019s danger isn\u2019t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It\u2019s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place
\nIn healthcare, there\u2019s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees \u2013 medical students, residents and fellows \u2013 who are using these tools before they\u2019ve built their own clinical judgment? The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be.
\nOpenEvidence, essentially an AI chatbot for clinicians, has given this concern its most concrete form. About two-thirds of US doctors actively use OpenEvidence, asking about puzzling symptoms, drug interactions, and clinical guidelines, getting responses within seconds, anchored in the latest research. Trainees, unsurprisingly, have also begun to use this AI tool in many of the same ways \u2013 but at a far more formative stage. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI\u2019s danger isn\u2019t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It\u2019s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place In healthcare, there\u2019s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees \u2013 medical students, residents and fellows \u2013 …<\/p>\n

What happens when medical students rely on AI \u2013 and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}