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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Education

Date Submitted: Nov 23, 2024
Open Peer Review Period: Nov 25, 2024 - Jan 20, 2025
Date Accepted: Jan 6, 2026
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The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

AI-Enhanced Continuing Professional Development as an Evolving Sociotechnical System: Multimethod Theoretical Framework Development Study

Hlede V, Valanci S, D'Antuono GR, Dow H, Wiggins R, Dorman T, O'Beirne R

AI-Enhanced Continuing Professional Development as an Evolving Sociotechnical System: Multimethod Theoretical Framework Development Study

JMIR Med Educ 2026;12:e69156

DOI: 10.2196/69156

PMID: 41678653

PMCID: 12900278

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Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Continuing Professional Development: A Theoretical Framework

  • Vjekoslav Hlede; 
  • Sofia Valanci; 
  • G. Robert D'Antuono; 
  • Heather Dow; 
  • Richard Wiggins; 
  • Todd Dorman; 
  • Ronan O'Beirne

ABSTRACT

Artificial intelligence (AI) enhanced continuing professional development (CPD) has great potential. It promises to transform the learning experience, improve learning outcomes, and ultimately help us improve patient care. Yet, AI is not a magical solution but a new element in the complex socio-technical systems that form our society. We need to understand the system to understand the power of AI. This position paper examines the need for a theoretical framework to help us better understand and guide interactions between AI and healthcare CPD. The 5 step theory construction methodology outlined by Borsboom et al. has been used to create the framework made of six foundational AI pillars: Literacy, Explainability, Ethics, Readiness, Reliability, and Learning Theories, and two complementary theoretical lenses: Complexity Theory and Actor-Network Theory.


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Please cite as:

Hlede V, Valanci S, D'Antuono GR, Dow H, Wiggins R, Dorman T, O'Beirne R

AI-Enhanced Continuing Professional Development as an Evolving Sociotechnical System: Multimethod Theoretical Framework Development Study

JMIR Med Educ 2026;12:e69156

DOI: 10.2196/69156

PMID: 41678653

PMCID: 12900278

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