Mark Cuban’s Advice for Medical Residents Today

Match Day was just a few weeks ago. What should freshly matched med students do to prepare for the future of technology in medicine? Offcall co-founder Dr. Graham Walker posed this question to Mark Cuban on a recent episode of the How I Doctor podcast. Mark — the tech mogul, world-famous “Shark,” and Cost Plus Drugs CEO — gave the following answer:

“Learn everything you can about AI. Period. End of story. We all think of chatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and we try to know the big name models. The reality is there's going to be millions of models. Because there's no way that the Mayo Clinic is sharing their research and everything they know with MD Anderson or Stanford. Because that diminishes their brand. So understanding all these elements is part one.

Part two, understanding how to communicate with patients and families of patients as it relates to AI. Because people are going to trust AI more than they do the doctors, because AI is going to talk for as many hours as you want it to. Being able to leverage AI, not just as a tool for information for you, but recognizing that it's going to be a tool that will be used by everybody.”

Listen to the full episode of How I Doctor featuring Mark Cuban here.

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