The conference, Artificial Intelligence and Medical Education, was held in November 2024. It engaged 50+ invited participants—including AI industry experts; AI in medical education innovators; leaders of academic medical centers, health systems, and relevant associations; health professions faculty and learners; and others—in intensive discussions designed to produce consensus recommendations for the field.
Through “Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education: A Grants Program to Advance Innovation in Medical Education,” we will fund three demonstration projects, each receiving up to $200K over two years. The projects chosen for funding describe, implement, and evaluate innovative strategies to integrate AI into medical education and prepare current and future physicians on the ethical use of AI to improve patient care. Additional details about the program are available on our website.
Additional conference-related products will include a Macy-commissioned report, Innovations Report on Artificial Intelligence and Medical Education (Part I here; Part II here), and a special issue of Academic Medicine (available online ahead of publication here). The special issue will also include the conference proceedings and consensus recommendations, and will be published September 2025 in print. The Innovations Report, intended to help focus the conference discussion, is being authored by Christy Boscardin, PhD, professor, and Brian Gin, MD, PhD, associate professor, at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.