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Health Care Students’ Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence: Countrywide Survey in Canada

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Teng, Minnie, Singla, Rohit, Yau, Olivia, Lamoureux, Daniel, Gupta, Aurinjoy, Hu, Zoe, Hu, Ricky, Aissiou, Amira +11 more·2022·JMIR Medical Education

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Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it is increasingly being integrated into health care. As studies on attitudes toward AI have primarily focused on physicians, there is a need to assess the perspectives of students across health care disciplines to inform future curriculum development. Objective: This study aims to explore and identify gaps in the knowledge that Canadian health care students have regarding AI, capture how health care students in different fields differ in their knowledge and perspectives on AI, and present student-identified ways that AI literacy may be incorporated into the health care curriculum. Methods: The survey was developed from a narrative literature review of topics in attitudinal surveys on AI. The final survey comprised 15 items, including multiple-choice questions, pick-group-rank questions, 11-point Likert scale items, slider scale questions, and narrative questions. We used snowball and convenience sampling methods by distributing an email with a description and a link to the web-based survey to representatives from 18 Canadian schools. Results: A total of 2167 students across 10 different health professions from 18 universities across Canada responded to the survey. Overall, 78.77% (1707/2167) predicted that AI technology would affect their careers within the coming decade and 74.5% (1595/2167) reported a positive outlook toward the emerging role of AI in their respective fields. Attitudes toward AI varied by discipline. Students, even those opposed to AI, identified the need to incorporate a basic understanding of AI into their curricula. Conclusions: We performed a nationwide survey of health care students across 10 different health professions in Canada. The findings would inform student-identified topics within AI and their preferred delivery formats, which would advance education across different health care professions.

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Teng, M., Singla, R., Yau, O., Lamoureux, D., Gupta, A., Hu, Z., Hu, R., Aissiou, A., Eaton, S., Hamm, C., Hu, S., Kelly, D., MacMillan, K. M., Malik, S., Mazzoli, V., Teng, Y.-W., Laricheva, M., Jarus, T., & Field, T. S.
Affiliations
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
  • NOSM University (CA)
  • Queen's University (CA)
  • University of Alberta (CA)
  • University of Calgary (CA)
  • Dalhousie University (CA)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • Vancouver Coastal Health (CA)
Corresponding author
Teng, Minnie
Venue
JMIR Medical Education
Published
2022-01-31
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
e33390
ISSN
2369-3762 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4200218394
Cited by
214
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 53 · 2025: 72 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 9
FWCI
6.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • JMIR Medical Education (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
University of British Columbia
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Artificial Intelligence in Education
Keywords
artificial intelligence, health professions students, attitudes toward AI, AI literacy, health professions education, curriculum development, student perceptions

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