AMA adopts policy to advance AI literacy in medical education
November 18, 2025 - National Harbor, Md. The American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new policy to expand training in Augmented Intelligence (AI) across medical school, residency, and continuing education. The goal: build physician fluency with AI, improve patient outcomes, and standardize how AI shows up in clinical training and daily practice.
What the policy does
The AMA will create and share model AI learning objectives and curricular toolkits that set a consistent baseline for how future and current physicians learn to use AI in care. It will work with medical organizations to recognize core AI literacy elements and push for funding and faculty development to make programs real-not theoretical.
- Model AI learning objectives for clinical practice
- Curricular toolkits schools and programs can plug in
- Collaboration across organizations to define AI literacy
- Advocacy for grants and faculty training to scale AI education
Why it matters for educators and clinicians
AI is already in EHR workflows, imaging, diagnostics, coding support, and care coordination. Without standards, training is uneven and trust suffers. The policy centers patient safety, transparency, and accuracy so physicians understand how tools work, where they fall short, and how to use them responsibly.
Stronger AI literacy can reduce administrative drag, support clinical decisions, and help physicians spend more time with patients. That's the outcome that matters.
Center for Digital Health and AI: putting physicians at the table
The AMA's Center for Digital Health and AI, launched in October, is focused on getting physician expertise into how digital tools are built and used. Priorities include education and training, policy and regulatory work, and making sure technology addresses real clinical needs-improving care and easing burnout, not adding another checkbox.
Free AMA learning: AI in Health Care Series
The AMA's ChangeMedEd program offers a seven-part Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Series on the AMA Ed Hub. Topics include an introduction to AI in care, AI-enabled diagnosis, and ethical and legal considerations-practical material you can assign, adapt, or use for CME.
Explore the AMA Ed Hub for AI courses and CME
Safeguards against deepfakes
Delegates also approved a resolution to protect patients and physicians from deepfake content. The AMA will support organizations working on federal policy and regulation, raise awareness of risks, and defend professional integrity against impersonation and malpractice threats.
Why this matters now: fake "doctors" are pulling millions of views for product promotions and unproven treatments. As imitation gets harder to spot, trust and safety are at risk-right where the patient-physician relationship lives.
What you can do next
- Audit your curriculum or CME catalog: where does AI show up, and where are the gaps?
- Map learning goals to the AMA's model objectives once released; integrate them into clerkships, assessments, and simulation.
- Stand up faculty development: identify champions, offer protected time, and provide training on AI basics, limitations, and clinical use cases.
- Add deepfake awareness to professionalism and patient safety training; define reporting and escalation steps.
- Set guardrails for AI use in documentation, clinical decision support, and patient communications; measure outcomes, not activity.
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About the American Medical Association
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