Familiarity and opinions of medical students about Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning in their medical degree
Survey item | Value | 95% CI | Total N |
Have you heard of machine learning? n (%) | – | – | 242 |
Yes | 137 (56.6%) | 50.4 to 62.9 | |
No | 105 (43.4%) | 37.1 to 49.6 | |
Are you familiar with big data analytics? n (%) | – | – | 242 |
Yes | 101 (41.7%) | 35.5 to 48.0 | |
No | 141 (58.3%) | 52.1 to 64.5 | |
Have you read any academic journal articles about artificial intelligence/ machine learning in medicine? n (%) | – | – | 242 |
Yes | 47 (19.4%) | 14.4 to 24.4 | |
No | 195 (80.6%) | 75.6 to 85.6 | |
Please estimate how many hours your instructors/lecturers have spent discussing artificial intelligence/machine learning during your medical degree so far. median | - | – | 221 |
0 hours | 147 (66.5%) | – | |
30 min to 1 hour | 38 (17.1%) | – | |
1 hour 30 min + | 36 (16.3%) | – | |
Please estimate how many hours your instructors/lecturers will spend discussing artificial intelligence/machine learning during your medical degree so far. media-n | - | – | |
0 hours | 133 (62.4%) | ||
30 min to 1 hour | 19 (8.9%) | ||
1 hour 30 min + | 61 (28.6%) | ||
Do you plan to learn about artificial intelligence/machine learning as they pertain to medicine? n (%) | – | – | 241 |
Yes | 99 (41.1%) | 34.9 to 47.3 | |
No | 29 (12.0%) | 7.9 to 16.1 | |
Maybe | 112 (46.5%) | 40.2 to 52.8 | |
Discussion about artificial intelligence/machine learning should be part of medical training. | – | – | 242 |
Strongly disagree | 8 (3.3%) | 1.1 to 5.6 | |
Moderately disagree | 18 (7.4%) | 4.1 to 10.7 | |
Somewhat disagree | 26 (10.7%) | 6.8 to 14.7 | |
Somewhat agree | 117 (48.4%) | 42.1 to 54.6 | |
Moderately agree | 45 (18.6%) | 13.7 to 23.5 | |
Strongly agree | 28 (11.6%) | 7.5 to 15.6 |