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.

If the early years of generative AI in medical education were about access (could our students even get their hands on these tools?) and then about permission (should we ‘let’ them?), 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the readiness reckoning. The question has shifted from whether our learners and colleagues will use AI to whether any of us are genuin…