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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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Will AI build clinical reasoning, or bypass it?

Five new papers, including a Nature Medicine warning about 'never-skilling', suggest that AI's effect on how doctors learn to think depends on…

Jul 6 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Students are ready. The curriculum isn't.

New 2026 evidence shows four in five medical students want to learn about AI, yet most schools still offer little or no formal teaching and far fewer…

Jun 29 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

Stop bolting AI on. Start redesigning.

Four new papers argue the real task is not adding AI tools to the curriculum but rebuilding medical education around them, while keeping human judgement…

Jun 22 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

The readiness gap that follows you through a career

Five new studies, from first-year students to senior faculty, find that enthusiasm for AI consistently runs ahead of the competence to use it well.

Jun 15 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

What we know about what trainees know

Five 2026 studies on AI literacy, adoption, placement use, and the cost of dependence.

Jun 8 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

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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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