The medical school  partnered last year with the Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing to launch the AI in Medicine Extracurricular Track, an interdisciplinary pilot program with eight lectures — the first of which is required for all medical students — intended to give first- through third-year medical students a better understanding of how AI works and how it can be used in health care. The inaugural cohort of 10 students has completed its first year and a second cohort will be selected this summer.

Homayoun Valafar, chair of the computer science and engineering department and director of USC’s AI Institute, is co-directing the AI in Medicine initiative with Leonardo Bonilha, a neurology professor and the medical school’s senior associate dean for research. Valafar likens AI to a device like others used in medicine such as stethoscopes and handheld ultrasound. Read the full article here.