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INFORMED CONSENT FOR ANONYMOUS SURVEY

You are invited to participate in a research study titled “Medical Students’ Viewpoints on Artificial Intelligence Prescribing Pain Medications.”

This study is being conducted by Dr. Bradley Thornock PhD MPH, Associate Professor of Medical Humanities, Rocky Vista University.

The purpose of this study is to gather the perspectives of medical students on whether Artificial Intelligence ought to prescribe pain medication without first experiencing pain.    

Participation in this study is entirely voluntary at all times.  You can choose not to participate at all or to leave the study at any point.  If you decide not to participate, or to leave the study, there will be no penalty or loss of benefits to which you are entitled, or any effect on your relationship with the researcher(s), or any other negative consequences. 

You are being asked to take part in this study because you are a current medical student.

If you agree to participate, you will be asked to fill out a survey about artificial intelligence and pain. This survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete.

The survey will be collected online and will be open until October 2020.

All of your responses to this survey will remain anonymous and cannot be linked to you in any way.  No personally identifying information about you will be collected at any point during the study, and your survey will be identified only with a random number.  You are free to withdraw from this study at any time.  However, once you submit your completed survey, there will be no way to withdraw your responses from the study because the survey contains no identifying information.

Study data will be kept in digital format on an official Rocky Vista University servers.  Access to digital data will be password protected. Only Dr. Thornock will have access to the data.

Any risks to you associated with this study are not expected to be greater than anything you encounter in everyday life.  While you will not experience any direct benefits from participation, information collected in this study may benefit the future development of artificial intelligence in the medical clinic.

If you have any questions regarding the survey or this research project in general, please contact the principal investigator, Dr. Bradley Thornock at bthornock@rvu.edu.

If you have any questions about your rights as a research participant, please contact the Rocky Vista University IRB Compliance Administrator at 720-874-2481 or ldement@rvu.edu .

By completing and submitting this survey, you are indicating your consent to participate in this study.

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* 1. Are you a current medical student (Note: this survey is open to current medical students only)?

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* 2. Introduction:


Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already begun revolutionizing the practice of medicine. As medical AI is further developed, programmers, physicians, and others will need to make hard decisions about the future of this technology. Recently researchers have trained AIs to assist physicians with prescribing medication and even, in some cases, to prescribe medicine on their own. In addition, over the past five years, other researchers have begun to program AI to feel and experience pain. Pain is an ubiquitous human experience and a common medical ailment. These developments in AI capability and sensation raise many practical and moral questions.  


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Imagine a near future in which an AI is allowed to prescribe medication, including pain medication, without the supervision of any physician.

For this prescribing AI, pick only ONE of the following conditions:

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* 3. Why did you choose that condition?

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