Guillaume Dumas, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Montreal and a member of SENSUM
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Algorithms are for medicine today what statistics were for medicine yesterday. In other words, the practice of healthcare is experiencing an historic turning point!
“In the 1950s, we thought about the idea of teaching doctors statistics. Now we tell ourselves that we should train them in artificial intelligence [IA] and getting them to understand how algorithms work so they can use them meaningfully and critically,” says Guillaume Dumas, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Addiction at the University of Montreal and a member of SENSUM.
Because “AI and its algorithms are part of the next-generation toolbox,” says the expert in computational psychiatry and mental health, also principal investigator in the Laboratory of Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology at CHU Sainte-Justine and holder of the IVADO Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health, will give two presentations at the 90th Acfas Congress, one on the contribution of AI to mental health and one on the training of digital health doctors. We discussed it with him.