Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine is teaming up with OpenEvidence, a popular AI-powered clinical reference app, to redesign how physicians are trained and how evidence reaches the bedside.
OpenEvidence is one of the fastest-growing tools in American medicine, with more than half of U.S. physicians regularly using the app.
“As AI becomes capable of surfacing and synthesizing the world’s medical knowledge in seconds, the role of the clinician shifts toward what cannot be automated: first-principles reasoning, clinical and contextual judgment, and the deeply human work of caring for patients,” according to an Oct. 13 news release from OpenEvidence.
The collaboration has two parts:
Education: The organizations plan to design a training model built on pathophysiology, evidence-based medicine, first-principles clinical reasoning, and diagnostic and interpersonal skills. They will also build adaptive AI systems meant to help physicians continue learning in an “AI native environment.”
Care delivery: Johns Hopkins and OpenEvidence will develop “human-first” AI systems that surface and synthesize the best available evidence and match it to a patient’s medical history and Johns Hopkins best practices.
Johns Hopkins established the current U.S. model of medical education more than a century ago. Sanjay Desai, MD, vice dean for education at Johns Hopkins Medicine, said the collaboration lets the organization design “very deliberately, the model of education and the practice of medicine for this new era.”
“Johns Hopkins designed modern medical education around a simple idea: that physicians learn medicine at the bedside, grounded in science and reasoning,” Dr. Desai said. “The arrival of AI, in many ways, invites us back to the bedside with new tools and capabilities we have yet to fully imagine.”
The release did not disclose financial terms, a timeline or which specific tools the organizations will build first.
Johns Hopkins joins other health systems working with OpenEvidence. Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine embedded the tool in Epic, and Boston Children’s Hospital is studying its effect on care. The company has also pointed to benchmark results, including a perfect score on a medical AI benchmark and a physician-led study in which it outperformed general-purpose models.
Other medical schools are working through the same question. Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in Nutley, N.J., has built AI into its curriculum while making clear that clinical reasoning remains central to training.
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