Health Education England: Developing healthcare workers’ confidence in AI (Part 2, October 2022)

Summary

This research is a collaboration between the NHS AI Lab and Health Education England. Its primary aim is to inform the development of education and training to develop healthcare workers’ confidence in artificial intelligence (AI).

Content

The research follows the Topol Review (2019) recommendation to develop a healthcare workforce able and willing to use AI and robotics, and is part of Health Education England’s Digital, AI and Robotics Technologies in Education (DART-Ed) programme to understand the impact of advances of these technologies on the workforce’s education and training requirements. Supporting healthcare workers to feel confident in identifying when and how to use AI is a main objective of the NHS AI Lab, and a key component of its vision for the safe, effective, and ethical adoption of AI technologies across health and care.

This is the second of two reports in relation to this research.

The first report outlined a conceptual framework for understanding what influences confidence in AI among healthcare workers.

This second report:

• identifies archetypes within the workforce based on AI-related roles and responsibilities
• determines educational and training needs based on these archetypes and the findings and conceptual framework of the first report
• presents suggested pathways to develop related education and training offerings.