Generative AI in Medical Education: Navigating the Educators’ Dilemma
By Neil Mehta, MBBS, MS
We are excited to welcome Dr. Neil Mehta, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU SOM, who will present Generative AI in Medical Education: Navigating the Educators’ Dilemma. The session will take place on Thursday, January 22, 2026, at 12:00 PM EST, for the third week of the IAMSE 2026 Winter Webcast Audio Seminar Series titled “From Hype to Reality: AI’s Rapid Transformation of Health-Sciences Professions Education.”
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to examine evidence-based applications, assessment of knowledge/skills, human factors in AI adoption, autonomous AI agents for teaching and administration, and policy and competency frameworks for faculty and students. The IAMSE 2026 Winter Webcast Audio Seminar Series presentations will focus on practical examples, emerging risks, and actionable strategies faculty can use now to design learning, assessment, and support systems to prepare students for a learning and practice environment transformed by AI. The series is intended for basic-science and clinical educators seeking forward-looking, implementable guidance.
The full IAMSE Winter WAS schedule can be found on the website.
Below we look at the third week’s presentation:
Neil Mehta, MBBS, MS
Generative AI in Medical Education: Navigating the Educators’ Dilemma
Presenter: Neil Mehta, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU SOM
Session Date & Time: January 22, 2026, at 12:00 PM EST
Session Description: Educators’ face the dilemma of the need to prepare students for their future of AI while mitigating the risk of cognitive deskilling/never-skilling. We will review a pedagogically based approach to approaching this dilemma.
As always, IAMSE Student Members can register for the series for FREE!
If you are an IAMSE student member, please contact support@iamse.org for information about registering at no cost.