The Art and Science of Healing: Reframing the Healer's Mindset for the Human-AI Era

Authors

Jen-Hung Yang, Chair Professor of the Center for Medical Humanities and School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University; Consultant Dermatologist, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung City, TaiwanFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

Jen-Hung Yang: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-8395

Abstract

Background: AI's expansion in medicine sharpens the tension between diagnostic science and the art of healing. AI is a complex sociotechnical system. Its integration in medicine is accelerating, yet reactive and tool-driven, which offers both opportunities and risks. AI will potentially worsen depersonalization and burnout. Objectives: The aim is to develop the guiding principles of AI to strengthen the art healing in medical education. Innovations: Healer's Mindset, inspired by Gardner's Five Minds, reframes Respectful and Ethical minds as three pillars: critical validation, a humanistic core, and discerning augmentation. These principles can help AI restore medicine's essence: fostering inquiry, faculty as facilitators, meaningful assessments, and dignified governance. Conclusion: AI provides the ``gift of time'' to give clinicians more time for compassionate patient care. Healer's Mindset is promising to protect humanity central in medicine, to ensure the art and science of medicine inseparable in the Human-AI era.

First Page

169

Last Page

172

Recommended Citation

Yang, Jen-Hung (2025) "The Art and Science of Healing: Reframing the Healer's Mindset for the Human-AI Era," Journal of Medical Education: Vol. 29: Iss. 4, Article 1.
Available at: https://jme.researchcommons.org/journal/vol29/iss4/1