Overview

• A JAMA Surgery study published on August 6, 2025 tested 87 medical students in VR neurosurgery simulations across three training methods: AI-only feedback, expert instruction, and AI-informed coaching.
• Trainees receiving expert feedback informed by AI analytics learned techniques more rapidly and transferred skills more effectively than those trained with AI-only or human-only guidance.
• The AI-informed group showed significantly better risk management in bleeding control and tissue preservation, critical measures of surgical expertise.
• This integrated approach combines AI’s data-driven performance assessments with human insights to deliver adaptive, personalized training in a controlled VR environment.
• Researchers are now evaluating how this AI-augmented teaching model could be adapted to other high-pressure, technical fields.