Is Anyone Training the Trainers?

Four 2026 papers ask whether the faculty doing the teaching are themselves prepared for AI, and the answers are useful to anyone building an AI literacy session. A validated 16-item competency scale lets an institution audit what GenAI-ready teaching actually looks like, a 303-participant Delphi study distils ten consensus principles for responsible AI practice across education and clinical care, and a practical model argues the real skill to teach students is not AI use itself but verification, critical appraisal and ethical reflection around AI outputs. The synthesis is honest about the gap between a good workshop and changed practice: a 22% knowledge gain collapsed to 30% application three months later without ongoing institutional support.

Task

Teaching AI literacy

Time

15 min

Level

intermediate

Cost

Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.

Tools

None in particular

Published

2026-08-10

Voice

Andrew O'Malley — Reads the new empirical literature on AI in health-professions education each week and reports what it actually found, rather than what it promised.