This subdiscipline is at the forefront of a new chapter of medicine we are entering and provides students with the opportunity and ability to improve patient care and quality of life. Medical professionals are recognizing the value of acquiring AI skills as their work aligns with colleagues in computer science and engineering to develop and deploy new and exciting tools.
Computer Science and Engineering majors undertaking this field need to be well versed in working with medical data and medical experts. These specialists must be aware of the biases AI tools are likely to introduce to clinical practice and prevent these and other undesirable effects from happening. At the same time medical professionals are eager to acquire the skills that will enable them to be the drivers of the development and deployment of AI into clinical practice. They must also understand what is involved in the creation of these tools so they can understand the limitations.
The proposed AI and Healthcare concentration aims to provide a training background for students who desire to enter the field as either medical experts or computer scientists/engineers. There is currently no program in Canada that is truly joint between the Departments of Computer Science and Medicine that would achieve the rigour required for safe and secure development and deployment of AI in the field of healthcare broadly, making this concentration one of a kind.
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