Clinical Skills & AI: Preserving Expertise in Healthcare
The Erosion of Expertise: Maintaining Clinical Skills in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming healthcare, promising increased efficiency and improved patient outcomes. However, this technological revolution brings a critical, often overlooked risk: the potential erosion of core clinical skills. As clinicians increasingly rely on algorithms for diagnosis and treatment recommendations, concerns are mounting about deskilling
– the loss of proficiency through disuse – mis-skilling
– the adoption of AI-driven errors or biases - and never-skilling
– the failure to develop competence in the first place. this isn’t a hypothetical future; evidence suggests these effects are already manifesting, especially in fields like radiology and cardiology.
