Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah 6655-51452, Saudi Arabia.
Curr Med Imaging. 2023;19(8):921-930. doi: 10.2174/1573405618666220907111422.
Medical students' career choices and motivations might be significantly impacted by the rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and the recent hype around it.
This study aimed to assess the impact of AI on medical students' preferences for radiology as a future specialty choice.
A cross-sectional study was conducted between October and December 2021 among all medical students in the three regional medical colleges in Al-Qassim Province, Saudi Arabia.
The survey resulted in 319 complete responses. Among the respondents, 26.96% considered radiology to be one of their top three future specialty choices. Only a minority of the respondents (23.2%) believed that radiologists would be replaced by AI during their lifetime. The misperceptions of the potential impact of AI led 22.26% of the students to be less likely to consider a career in radiology. Students with an interest in radiology were less influenced by such misperceptions (p=.01). Based on self-reported confidence measures, the basic understanding of AI was higher among students with an interest in radiology and students with prior exposure to AI (p<.05).
The students' preferences for radiology as a future specialty choice were influenced by their misperceptions of the potential impact of AI on the discipline. Students' interest in radiology and prior exposure to AI helped them grasp AI and eliminate the hype around it.
人工智能（AI）的快速发展和近期的炒作，可能会对医学生的职业选择和动机产生重大影响。
本研究旨在评估 AI 对医学生选择放射科作为未来专业的偏好的影响。
2021 年 10 月至 12 月期间，在沙特阿拉伯盖西姆省的三所地区医学院对所有医学生进行了横断面研究。
调查共收到 319 份完整回复。在受访者中，26.96%认为放射科是他们未来三个首选专业之一。只有少数受访者（23.2%）认为放射科医生在他们的有生之年将被 AI 取代。对 AI 潜在影响的误解导致 22.26%的学生不太可能考虑从事放射科工作。对放射科感兴趣的学生受这些误解的影响较小（p=.01）。根据自我报告的信心衡量标准，对放射科感兴趣的学生和接触过 AI 的学生对 AI 的基本理解更高（p<.05）。
学生对放射科作为未来专业选择的偏好受到他们对 AI 对该学科潜在影响的误解的影响。学生对放射科的兴趣和对 AI 的预先接触帮助他们理解 AI 并消除对它的炒作。
