Dual AI-Medical Degree for Physicians

Universities have begun to incorporate AI technologies into medical practice by offering a certificate program—Artificial Intelligence in Medicine—mainly geared toward working physicians. Times Higher Education wrote that so far this pioneering movement is underway in medical schools at the universities of Florida and Illinois, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Stanford and Harvard universities.Fortune reported in late September that the University of Texas at San Antonio, in conjunction with UT Health San Antonio, “is launching the first-of-its-kind dual degree in medicine and AI to uniquely train the next generation physicians at the forefront of the tech world.” Students in the five-year program will earn a Doctor of Medicine degree and a Master of Science in AI (MSAI). During a gap year between their third and fourth years of medical school, they will complete the MSAI. Students will acquire foundational AI skills and learn how to deploy them in real-world medical situations.