Eh my department is pretty pro-AI. We have had quite a few grand rounds from big places that are leading the AI research and from using the tools daily, I don’t see anything happening soon. I definitely would not listen to the pre med who keeps posting stuff out of their knowledge base. I see a lot of areas where AI can help us with work list integration, helping us do the awful cancer follow ups, and characterizing things that our eyes are not the best at seeing. Look at the fda cleared algorithms on ACR, I don’t think any of the current known algorithms are trying to replace radiologists.
Can it lower our reimbursements and job market in the future? Sure. No one knows. Keep in mind, midlevels are a bigger threat to physicians than AI at the moment. For many fields, AI+ midlevels will likely be a huge threat, especially for your example of general cardiology. As for GI, as a prelim I was allowed to do colonoscopies and endoscopies almost solo and surgeons can do them too so… I’m sure people can be trained to do them.
If you truly believe the AI hype and are scared, do something surgical. Running to IM and fellowship won’t do that much for you.
