New Task Force to Advance STFM Strategic Priorities Around Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education

January 3, 2025—The STFM Board of Directors has approved funding for a new. 2-year task force to advance responsible, outcome-driven, and people-centered artificial intelligence (AI) through a community of clinicians, scholars, and educators in family medicine.

Task force members will develop and implement strategies and resources to educate family medicine education teams and learners on advances in AI. The primary objectives of task force's 2-year plan align with STFM new strategic objectives to:

Advance the adoption, implementation, scholarship, and evaluation of ethical AI in family medicine education
Identify and promote opportunities to elevate family medicine educators to leadership roles in AI
Identify and promote how the use of AI can improve efficiency and reduce burdensome tasks for clinicians, scholars, and educators in family medicine

Specifically, the task force will:

Conduct a gap analysis
Identify and aggregate available training and resources
Create new resources, as needed
Create and implement a plan for faculty development
Create and implement a plan for disseminating resources

The task force will be chaired by STFM President-Elect Steven Lin, MD, Director, Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Additional task force members include:

Rika Bajra, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Ian Bennett MD, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
Linda Chang, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford
Enitza George, MD, MBA, MSAI, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Karim Hanna, MD, USF TGH Family Medicine Residency Program
John Hayes DO, MCW-Prevea Green Bay Family Medicine Residency Program
Misbah Keen, MD, MBI, MPH, University of Washington School of Medicine
Winston Liaw, MD, MPH, University of Houston
May Lin, DO, Touro University
Yun Shi, MD, PhD, UT Health San Antonio
Margaret Ann Smith, Stanford School of Medicine
Brent K Sugimoto, MD, MPH, LifeLong Medical Care Family Medicine Residency Program
Mary Theobald, MBA, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Timothy Tsai, DO MMCi, Stanford University School of Medicine
Steven Waldren, MD, MS, American Academy of Family Physicians
Yun Liu, Google Research