Ep 74: Grand Rounds: Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Precision Education: Sorting out Technology in Health Professions Education (Martin Pusic)

Recorded on November 28, 2025.

Join us for grand rounds this week where Dr. Martin Pusic, a Harvard Medical School professor, pediatric emergency medicine physician at the Boston Children's Hospital, and Scholar in Residence at the Brigham Education Institute, discusses AI in the context of medical education.

Dr. Pusic is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine in the Harvard Medical School, a practicing Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician at the Boston Children’s Hospital, and Scholar in Residence at the Brigham Education Institute. He recently became Director of the Research and Education Foundation at the American Board of Medical Specialties where he encourages scholarly approaches to certification of medical expertise. He is also a core faculty member of the Harvard Macy Institute where he teaches on the intersection of educational technology and Health Professions Education. He is a scholar in the field of medical expertise with his research focusing on the collection and analysis of learning analytic data to nurture and certify expertise development across healthcare specialties. Dr. Pusic obtained his medical degree from the University of British Columbia, a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at McGill, and his Masters (Informatics) and PhD (Human Cognition) from Columbia University. He is a Past President of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education, Chair of the American Heart Association’s Education Science & Programs Subcommittee and has been Co-Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Medical Education Research Grant Committee.

There is a new wave of innovation in Health Professions Education. Artificial intelligence, precision education, and learning analytics are terms that have come to the vanguard recently. In this keynote, we will explore what its implications are for Health Professions Education. We will discuss data-driven approaches to individualizing education. And the implications for the Educator-Learner alliance. This, of course, has not been sorted out! But what we can do is draw on our experience of adapting to technology in the past to establish some useful approaches.

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