Researchers recruited medical students and got them to train for neurosurgery on simulators. They divided them into three groups: one trained with AI-only verbal feedback, one with expert instructor feedback, and one with expert feedback informed by real-time AI performance data. The team recorded the students’ performance, including how well and how quickly their surgical skills improved while undergoing the different types of training.

Amid a growing youth mental health crisis, a new study shows that hope is a powerful protective force for adolescents. Beyond boosting emotional and physical well-being, higher levels of hope significantly reduced bullying and cyberbullying. Hopeful teens – those who believe in their goals and pathways to achieve them – were more than one third less likely to harm others. Those with less hope were more than 50% more likely to engage in such behavior. For parents, educators and policymakers: hope is a critical tool for prevention.

USF launches what’s believed to be the world’s first university-based undergraduate concentration in health care simulation operations, preparing students for a rapidly growing, high-impact field.