Makes sense. We’ve been reading articles for *many weeks* now cautioning residency applicants and medical school applicants to not use AI for writing their resumes and letters. Now we’re hearing the universities are going to get the AI to read those same applications. 😂
“Last year we had 5,000 applicants, and we have to get that down to about 180” accepted students, notes Laurah Turner, PhD, MS, Associate Dean for artificial intelligence and educational informatics at UC College of Medicine.
While in favor of anything that saves 1000’s of hours of physician time a year, we’re a little doubtful about the usefulness of AI as a sieve. AI could do an outstanding job of summarization and organization of information, on the other hand. We’ve seen a lot of physicians tasked with admissions build complex tables each year as they look at residents or students - that’s the kind of job AI excels at. AI is not going be so great at relative comparisons yet.
AI Will Now Read Your Medical School Application - AAMC
Trump Pauses US Department of Health and Human Services AgenciesHe didn’t actually “pause the agencies”; the article refers to a blanket ban on communications. There’s no text associated with the ban—this is early reporting from within the agencies. Blanket bans are highly unusual. While it’s normal for new administrations to pause specific communications related to changing policies, procedures, or messaging, broad bans are not typically used. Obama didn’t do this. Biden’s administration did the opposite, moving communication controls back to the agencies from the White House. President Donald Trump’s Plan to Exit the WHO Alarms Health LeadersWe’re in, we’re out, we’re in…and now we’re out again. While the US is the largest contributor to WHO, we’re only 18% of the $6.8b budget, so the loss of the US is survivable, but difficult. The argument against WHO, one also made by the Biden White House, is (to put it succinctly) competence and independence. The argument FOR staying in is that no other world body is organized specifically to address some of the early stage warning signals that WHO is. An external viewpoint, Malaika Mahlatsi is a South African, currently doing PhD studies in Germany. She argues that Trump is in fact ceding ground politically by leaving rather than engaging.
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