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AI and Radiology Trainees, USPSTF Purge, and Lantheus Takeover
May 28, 2026
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“I don’t believe AI will replace good physicians, because medicine is far more than information retrieval and Q&A. But … the first real shift may not be happening where we expected. In many ways, we might soon all have a doctor in our pockets, and primary care may be forced to reinvent itself faster than expected.”
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Amine Korchi, MD, on AI’s disruption of healthcare.
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Is AI still scaring off medical students from picking radiology as a specialty? A new study in Academic Radiology found that while prospective radiology trainees don’t seem as worried as they were after radiology AI burst onto the scene in 2015, they still have concerns about how AI will affect the profession.
Radiology has long been seen as the medical specialty most at risk of broader AI adoption, largely because early AI applications focused primarily on image analysis.
- These fears led to a widely publicized dip in radiology residency applications after 2016, the year after IBM Watson debuted at the RSNA show and when AI guru Geoffrey Hinton, PhD, issued his famous advice to stop training radiologists.
But interest in radiology rebounded shortly after that. AI adoption was slower than anticipated, and few hospitals have proven willing to turn over radiologists’ duties to computers.
- Given the changes, how have the attitudes of medical students toward AI evolved in the last 10 years? Researchers decided to survey Canadian medical students and residents to find out.
In all, 401 respondents replied to the survey, of whom 13% had ranked radiology as their top specialty choice, with the following findings…
- Only 2.5% said AI was “extremely influential” in affecting their specialty choice, with 57% saying it had a “slight/moderate impact” and 35% stated “no impact.”
- AI was more important for those ranking radiology in their top three, with 91% saying AI influenced their decision compared to 54% of those uninterested in radiology.
- For those interested in radiology, 33% said AI made them feel discouraged, 13% were encouraged, and 33% reported no AI influence.
- Those who believed AI would reduce radiologist demand were 50% less likely to be interested in a radiology career.
How to interpret the results? The authors felt the findings showed that AI had either no influence or a slight/moderate effect on specialty choice, but the impact was greater in those who were interested in radiology.
- They also saw a “growing polarization” among trainees, in that while many viewed AI as a threat to their job security, some saw it as an opportunity for innovation.
The Takeaway
Medical students have complex and nuanced attitudes toward AI in radiology, as the new study indicates. But the findings suggest that past fears of radiology AI have evolved into a more measured view that better reflects real-world AI adoption.
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- RFK Jr. Dismisses USPSTF Leaders: In a sign of major upcoming changes at the USPSTF, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. dismissed two of the advisory group’s leaders, vice chairs John Wong, MD, and Esa Davis, MD. The USPSTF consists of volunteer clinicians who provide guidance on preventive medical services like mammography screening. The USPSTF usually meets three times a year, but the group hasn’t convened since March 2025 as RFK Jr. ponders changes to align it more closely with his Make America Healthy Again agenda.
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- Lantheus Mulls Takeover Bid: Radiopharmaceutical provider Lantheus is evaluating its options after getting a takeover offer from Curium Pharma. As first reported by Bloomberg, Curium offered to acquire Lantheus in an acquisition valuing the company at $7B. Lantheus is one of the largest suppliers of radiopharmaceuticals, although in January 2026 it sold its SPECT tracer business to SHINE in order to focus on PET tracers such as its Pylarify PSMA-PET tracer for prostate cancer. Most recently, the FDA said it needed extra time to review Lantheus’ LNTH-2501 PET tracer.
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- RSNA’s New Publishing Partnership: RSNA is outsourcing the publishing of five journals to academic publishing giant Wolters Kluwer under a new 10-year agreement. RSNA has been publishing the journals itself for decades, but the new relationship is expected to make its content available more broadly through vehicles like Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid research support platform. RSNA will also move to Wolters Kluwer’s article submission and production platform. The contract includes Radiology, Radiology: Artificial Intelligence, Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, Radiology: Imaging Cancer, and RadioGraphics.
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- Proposed Prostate Cancer Downgrade: As attention turns to wider adoption of prostate cancer screening, clinicians are proposing to downgrade the terminology for describing low-risk lesions to classify them as precancerous. In a research letter in JAMA Oncology, they tested a statistical model in which grade group 1 lesions were characterized as precancerous rather than cancer. They found that the terminology downgrade would avoid 6X more prostate cancer deaths than might be caused by any delays in diagnosis (2.8k vs. 452).
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- Few AI Vendors File PCCPs for Algorithms: More AI developers are filing predetermined change control plans with the FDA for their algorithms, but use of the PCCP program is still very low. The PCCP program enables AI developers to change authorized algorithms without filing new paperwork, but a new analysis in JAMA Health Forum found only 5.4% of nearly 800 AI-enabled medical devices had PCCP plans on file at the end of 2025. But the ratio appears to be accelerating, with 9.7% of algorithms including PCCP documentation in the fourth quarter.
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- Australia’s I-MED Agrees to $2.4B Acquisition: Australia’s largest private radiology services provider is being acquired by a Hong Kong-based investment firm. Private equity company Permira is selling its stake in I-MED Radiology Network to Jardine Matheson Holdings for an estimated $2.4B, settling months of rumors about I-MED’s future. I-MED operates 215 imaging centers in Australia and New Zealand. Permira acquired I-MED in 2018, and under its ownership the company made heavy investments in AI, such as buying an equity stake in AI company Harrison.ai.
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- CT Lung Screening Testing Burden: Fear of downstream testing has held back broader adoption of CT lung cancer screening. But is this concern valid? A new study in JACR queried 468 people a week after they got lung screening scans, finding minimal short-term test-related complications. On a 100-point scale with 100 indicating no problems, people who got lung screening at either a university or safety-net site reported high mean scores (98 and 96, respectively), higher than scores for prostate biopsy or diagnostic mammography (95 and 91, respectively).
- ‘Supermarket Scanning’ Detects Lung Cancer: The U.K.’s NHS is highlighting the success of its mobile CT lung cancer screening program, which includes mobile screening vans in supermarket car parks and sports stadiums. Mobile imaging trucks are a major part of the NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme, which was launched in 2019 and has detected 10.7k lung cancers so far – over three-quarters at stage 1 or 2. The first phase of the project has focused on underserved areas, with a nationwide rollout targeted for 2030.
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