Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan 18 – The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) to develop artificial intelligence tools aimed at improving physician training through personalized learning.

The four-year award, part of the AMA’s Transforming Lifelong Learning Through Precision Education program, will fund UC’s project “Ambient AI for precision feedback: Augmenting clinical reasoning and communication using real-time feedback.”

UC was among 11 teams selected from nearly 200 applicants. The project will use data from devices such as smart glasses and smartphones to capture clinical interactions and deliver tailored feedback to medical trainees, addressing what researchers say is a shortage of high-quality feedback in clinical settings.

Principal investigator Laurah Turner, PhD, said the initiative builds on UC’s existing 2-Sigma AI platform, which provides adaptive simulations. The new system will be tested with about 600 medical students and residents at two sites before expanding to real patient encounters.

“Just as data analytics transformed professional sports, precision education is poised to transform how we train physicians,” Turner said.

Dean Gregory Postel, MD, called the grant a milestone, adding that real-time data can help optimize learning and prepare future physicians to deliver precision-based care.

UC will collaborate with Arizona State University’s School of Medicine and Medical Engineering and HonorHealth, a Phoenix-based health system.

The AMA is investing $12 million in precision education grants, part of its ChangeMedEd® Initiative, which has directed nearly $50 million toward reimagining medical education over the past decade.