ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

Three Epochs of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Importance  Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has reached an all-time high, and health care leaders across the ecosystem are faced with questions about where, when, and how to deploy AI and how to understand its risks, problems, and possibilities. Observations  While AI…

Age-Related Macular Degeneration – A Review

Importance  Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects approximately 20 million people in the US and 196 million people worldwide. AMD is a leading cause of severe vision impairment in older people and is expected to affect approximately 288 million people worldwide by…

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Neuroimmunological Disease – A Review

Importance  The temporal association between the occurrence of neurological diseases, many autoimmune diseases, and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 has been topically interesting and remains hotly debated both in the medical literature and the clinic. Given the very low incidences of these events…

A Nationwide Network of Health AI Assurance Laboratories

Importance  Given the importance of rigorous development and evaluation standards needed of artificial intelligence (AI) models used in health care, nationwide accepted procedures to provide assurance that the use of AI is fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe are urgently needed….

Intraoperative Blood Management Strategies for Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery – The Ottawa Intraoperative Transfusion Consensus

Importance  There is marked variability in red blood cell (RBC) transfusion during the intraoperative period. The development and implementation of existing clinical practice guidelines have been ineffective in reducing this variability. Objective  To develop an internationally endorsed consensus statement about intraoperative transfusion…

What Might It Mean to Embrace Emancipatory Pedagogy in Medical Education?

An emerging and important goal of professional health training and education is to develop a workforce that is equipped to address patients’ social and structural determinants of health and to contribute to health equity. However, current medical education does not…

Using Critical Pedagogy to Advance Antiracism in Health Professions Education

This article draws on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed to model how health professions education can advance health equity. It first introduces 3 well-known frameworks that can be meaningfully applied as critical pedagogy: structural competency, critical race theory, and…