Harvard's Super-Selective AI Track

Politico (10/17/24) Payne, Daniel; Reader, Ruth; Schumaker, Erin

With the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in all occupations, students at Harvard Medical School will start this fall with a month-long introductory course on AI in healthcare. Students on a health science and technology track, who often go on to become physician-engineers or physician-scientists, will about AI's uses and its diagnostic limits in medicine. Harvard has also introduced a new Ph.D. course of study that focuses on AI in medicine and it offers grants for as much as $100,000 for projects that aim to innovate medical practice with AI. With greater demand for clinicians who understand the technology, education about AI could help influence how it is used and play a role in doctor's trust of AI.

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