The podcast is based on the article by Dr. Jiajie Zhang, Dean and Dr. Susan Fenton, Vice Dean for Education at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, which was published in npj Health Systems. It discusses the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on healthcare education, framing it as a shift toward an AI-augmented future. This transformation is likened to historical economic shifts, suggesting that AI is initiating a "Cognitive Revolution" that frees humans from cognitive labor. The authors propose that education must evolve from traditional knowledge transfer to cultivating higher-order cognitive skills—such as ethical reasoning and critical thinking—that machines cannot easily replicate. They introduce the concept of Distributed Cognition, where human intelligence works synergistically with exponentially accelerating AI technology, emphasizing that AI serves as a unified, vast knowledge base. Finally, the text uses Biomedical Informatics as a case study to illustrate the transition from an interdisciplinary educational approach to one fully integrated with and augmented by AI.

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This podcast was produced using Google NotebookLM and is based on the article “Preparing healthcare education for an AI-augmented future” by Zhang & Fenton (2024). The episode reflects AI-generated summaries and interpretations of the published work.

Zhang, J., Fenton, S. H. (2024). Preparing healthcare education for an AI-augmentedfuture. npj Health Systems. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44401-024-00006-z.