The Role of AI in Surgical Training
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly enter medical education, questions remain about how best to integrate them into surgical training. Intelligent tutoring platforms can monitor performance and provide automated feedback, but whether this is sufficient, or whether AI is most effective when coupled with human guidance, is less clear. This quiz examines the results of a randomized clinical trial of 88 medical students at the McGill Neurosurgical Simulation and Artificial Intelligence Learning Centre—all of whom were novice users of the NeuroVR surgical simulator. The study participants were randomly assigned to one of three groups: intelligent tutoring only, standardized expert feedback mirroring the intelligent tutor, or expert instruction tailored using AI-derived error data.