Preparing physicians for agentic AI requires more than an elective. Medical education must redesign how students reason independently, delegate work, verify machine output, and retain clinical judgment.
Clinical intelligence is becoming abundant. Physicians must learn to delegate, verify, contextualize, and judge the work of increasingly autonomous clinical AI systems.
Clinical software can execute protocol logic perfectly and still be wrong for the patient. The physician checkpoint must remain part of the architecture.
Language models can make uncertain medical information sound finished. The problem is not fluency. The problem is mistaking fluency for accountable clinical reasoning.