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One year of AI × MedEd

A year ago this week I started this newsletter. Here are some of my reflections and what comes next.

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Mastering Prompt Engineering in Medical Education

Mar 9 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Does AI Erode or Enhance Medical Student Cognition?

Feb 2 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Do Patients Trust Clinical AI? Navigating Autonomy and Consent in Medical Education

Apr 13 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Stop bolting AI on. Start redesigning.

Jun 22 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

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Introducing SimPatient: AI-Powered Virtual Patients for Healthcare Training

SimPatient combines lifelike avatars, a proprietary clinical language model, and a diversity engine to scale communication training worldwide.

Sep 11, 2025 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

The AI gap isn't about enthusiasm

Outside the US and Europe there is near-universal appetite for AI combined with very limited access.

Aug 17 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Is Anyone Training the Trainers?

Four 2026 papers move past what students should learn about AI and ask whether the faculty teaching them are actually ready.

Aug 10 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

How much MedEd AI research actually happening?

Four new bibliometric studies map the literature itself, and the picture is bigger, faster and shakier than any single paper can show.

Aug 4 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

How I use AI in AI × MedEd

The answer may surprise you!

Jul 30 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

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My Research

AI-Generated Medical Imagery and Representation: Do We All Get to be Seen?

A student’s take on our study testing whether AI image generators fairly represent skin tones in dermatology.

Sep 25, 2025 • Ayla

Conference Report: AMEE goes big on AI in Barcelona

My reflection on my first AMEE conference, where AI research is everywhere, but widespread adoption still lags

Sep 4, 2025 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Can Artificial Intelligence Write Exam Questions?

Our recent study demonstrates the promise and pitfalls of letting large language models draft SBAs

Aug 7, 2025 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

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Introducing SimPatient: AI-Powered Virtual Patients for Healthcare Training

SimPatient combines lifelike avatars, a proprietary clinical language model, and a diversity engine to scale communication training worldwide.

Sep 11, 2025 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Introducing MCQ Maker: an evidence-based genAI tool to create SBAs

MCQ Maker, now running OpenAI GPT-5, can boost your question banks while guaranteeing exam security

Aug 21, 2025 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

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I'm a medical educator. I read the literature so you don't have to, then write one short letter every Monday. For faculty, residents, curriculum leads, and anyone in higher ed who teaches.

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