The Council of Deans of Health has published the Principles for the use of Generative AI in Healthcare Education report as part of its Innovation Month 2026.
As AI tools become increasingly prevalent, the healthcare education sector must evolve to balance innovation with ethical considerations, ensuring that academic integrity and professional standards are upheld while fostering equitable access to AI-driven advancements.
This report outlines eight high level principles for integrating AI into healthcare education, recognising its potential to enhance teaching, learning, and student support. Human oversight, interdisciplinary collaboration and a strong service user voice were central to the principles. A supplementary document has also been published, providing illustrative examples to demonstrate each of the principles and showing how AI can support innovative approaches to healthcare education. The aim of these publications is to add to the knowledge base and share sector learning.
Dr. Ruth Paterson, Chair of the Innovation in Education group and Head of Nursing at Edinburgh Napier University, said:
“Across academic institutions there has been a plethora of guidance for students and teachers on how to use large language models, such as chat GPT, Co-pilot and DeepSeek. The high-level principles proposed in this report are aligned to regulatory frameworks and academic institutional guidance. We have also provided practical examples of how AI can support innovative approaches to healthcare education. This is intended to add to the evidence base and understand how students, educationalists and healthcare practitioners are applying AI to their professional practice thus advancing knowledge in this area.”
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