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At one point the US did have at least a couple of 6-year undergrad/medical school programs but they were discontinued I believe.

Machine learning has been talked up a lot in medicine especially in the context of radiology. I'm not sure to what degree it's really panned out to date. Legal discovery has been aided by automation of various sort for years.






Next time you get an x-ray, drop it in your favorite LLM and start asking it questions. It's eye-opening.

ChatGPT does not carry expensive malpractice insurance. The Radiologist is human in the loop for reasons other than their pattern recognition ability.

Not sure what concern you are addressing. I never said to replace radiologists with ChatGPT. My suggestion was to use it as a tool for further information.

That said, note that malpractice is in place for a reason. Everyone makes mistakes. We all have to go in to work even if we have a horrible hangover, doctors and radiologists included.


The UMKC 6-year one seems to still exist as far as I can tell: https://med.umkc.edu/academics/degree-and-certificate-progra...



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