40+ Authors, 9 Specialties, and a Book Written by the Next Generation of Doctors: Emily Leventhal and Rishma Jivan on The Physician's Guide to AI From Offcall and MD+
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Emily Leventhal and Rishma Jivan discuss the impact of AI on medical training and specialties in this episode of How I Doctor.
Emily Leventhal is a third-year MD-PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Rishma Jivan is a fourth-year at Rush Medical College who spent years inside San Francisco health tech startups before going back to medical school. Together they co-led The Physician's Guide to AI , a nine-specialty e-book built with more than 40 physician authors, published in partnership with MD+ . In this episode of How I Doctor, Dr. Graham Walker sits down with Emily and Rishma to find out what medical training actually looks like from inside the AI shift. What's really happening on rotations, in the hallways, and in the conversations students are having with attendings who don't always know what to make of it. They dig into the "hidden curriculum," the unwritten norms of medical training that AI is starting to help close for students who don't come from medical families, and why Rishma refuses to let herself trust an AI output without teaching herself to critique it first. Emily makes the case that AI won't just change how physicians practice, it will change which specialties students choose to go into at all. And both push back on the idea that relying on these tools is a…
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