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Medical trainees risk never developing clinical judgment due to AI reliance

There is growing concern that medical professionals are becoming less clinically adept due to their increasing reliance on AI tools. This issue is particularly acute for trainees, such as medical students and residents, who are using AI before developing their own independent clinical judgment. While experienced clinicians may be able to critically evaluate AI outputs, trainees risk never developing essential reasoning skills if they depend on AI for answers. A study in Nature Medicine highlights that even specialized medical AI can be unreliable, suggesting a systemic issue of misplaced trust among trainees who feel pressured to use these tools to keep pace with peers. AI

IMPACT Medical trainees may fail to develop essential clinical reasoning skills, potentially leading to a generation of doctors who are unable to critically evaluate AI outputs or catch its mistakes.

RANK_REASON The item is an opinion piece discussing the potential negative impact of AI on medical training and clinical judgment.

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Medical trainees risk never developing clinical judgment due to AI reliance

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  1. The Guardian — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran ·

    What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran

    <p>AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place</p><p>In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/well/ai-making-doctors-worse-deskil…