Medical Students' Perceptions towards Digitization and Artificial Intelligence: A Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT: Digital technologies in health care, including artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, constantly increase. The aim of this study was to explore attitudes of 2020 medical students' generation towards various aspects of eHealth technologies with the focus on AI using an exploratory sequential mixed-method analysis. Data from semi-structured interviews with 28 students from five medical faculties were used to construct an online survey send to about 80,000 medical students in Germany. Most students expressed positive attitudes towards digital applications in medicine. Students with a problem-based curriculum (PBC) in contrast to those with a science-based curriculum (SBC) and male undergraduate students think that AI solutions result in better diagnosis than those from physicians (p

SUBMITTER: Gillissen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9027704 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature