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10 Things I’d Do With AI If I Were a Med Student Today

A student at a recent orthopedic meeting asked me where to start with AI. My answer has almost nothing to do with studying.

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Christian Pean MD, MS
Jul 30, 2026
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Editorial cartoon of an overwhelmed medical student surrounded by Anki cards, First Aid, and AI chat bubbles

Medicine is in a funny funk. Public trust in physicians’ honesty and ethics has fallen roughly 20 points from its pandemic peak, hitting its lowest mark since the mid-1990s. Policy keeps redrawing what our work is worth. And AI is moving through clinical care faster than any technology in my lifetime: the share of US medical schools with AI in the curri…

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