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- 1AI improves doctors' skills but may hurt medical students' learning●AI made me a better doctor. It’s made medicine students worse
A doctor argues that artificial intelligence has improved their own practice while making medical students worse, raising concerns that reliance on AI tools is eroding trainees' clinical reasoning and foundational skills. The piece has sparked debate over how AI should be used in medical education without weakening the training of the next generation of doctors.
- 2Oransky says publish-or-perish incentives flood medical literature with junk●"If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they
Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch, argues that medical schools and universities are themselves to blame for junk science filling academic journals. He says admissions processes that reward applicants for publications give students an incentive to publish large volumes of low-quality research, overwhelming the medical literature with what he calls garbage.
- 3UNT Health struggles to find clinical training sites near Fort Worth●UNT Health sits near Fort Worth hospitals. Finding training sites a ‘game of Tetris’
UNT Health, located close to major Fort Worth hospitals, is finding it increasingly difficult to secure clinical training placements for its students. Officials describe the search for training sites as a 'game of Tetris', highlighting crowded competition for placements among area medical institutions and the strain it places on educating future health professionals in North Texas.