Overview

Reimagine GP training in the context of AI integration how can we strengthen the meaning-making practices essential to humanistic healthcare

Context

UK healthcare is facing an existential crisis, with fragmentation, lower approval ratings than at any time in the history of the NHS; and correspondingly high staff attrition rates. In tandem, we are facing huge change with the evolving role of artificial intelligence.

GPs therefore urgently need to focus on what constitutes the essence of our work and to consider how we position ourselves as practitioners and as teachers. Inevitably this involves an examination of values and consideration of how we position ourselves with regard to uncertainty.

The capabilities that define expert general practice—the ability to navigate ethical uncertainty, exercise situational discernment, and attend to contextual particulars that resist standardization—develop through engagement with forms of uncertainty that cannot be reduced to percentages or probability scores. Yet as AI systems become increasingly integrated into healthcare delivery, prevailing technical approaches prioritize quantifiable measures of reliability over the expression of interpretive complexity (Delacroix et al., 2025).. This creates a systematic risk: if AI systems predominantly communicate certainty about what can be measured while obscuring uncertainties about what matters most—patient values, contextual appropriateness, ethical salience—they may gradually erode the very perceptual and pre-reflective capacities that hermeneutic approaches to medical education seek to cultivate. This conference addresses how we can ensure that both GP training and AI integration preserve and strengthen, rather than undermine, the meaning-making practices essential to humanistic healthcare.

Agenda

09.15 Registration

Part 1 Context

09.30 Introduction and welcome-why should we think differently about medical education? Rupal Shah

9.50 Sabena Jameel and Sophie Park in conversation with Bob Clarke- ‘Professional identity formation in medical education’

10.20- 10.45 Audience response

10.45 Coffee break

Part 2 Implications of AI

11.05 Richard Lehman and Sylvie Delacroix ‘The learning environment under transformation – why clinicians must shape—not just adapt to—AI’

11.35 Audience discussion

12.05 View from a newly qualified GP -Selma and questions

12.25 Amit and John L – Digital doors to human stories

12.45 Audience discussion

13.10 Lunch

Part 3 Formulating recommendations

14.10 Jens Foell -Medical education as craftsmanship (with 10 minutes for questions)

14.35 -1520 Small group work

15.20-15.35 Coffee break 

15.35 -16.30 Plenary (7 mins from each group – 3 mins to present and 4 mins for questions/ discussion) and final summing up/ next steps