Artificial intelligence and the adoption of new technology in medical education

In the pursuit of remaining relevant and effective, medical education regularly adopts new technology into both its modes of delivery and the content of what it teaches. At face value this is a virtuous endeavor, but a tension quickly emerges involving choices that must be made between established teaching techniques versus new technologically enabled ones, and topics that should be taught versus those that could be taught. One of the central appeals of technology is that it offers potential solutions not previously available.