As AI absorbs more of the diagnostic and administrative load that once defined clinical training, medical education faces a genuine fork: redirect curriculum time toward judgment under ambiguity, communication, and the skills AI can't touch — or hold the line on fundamentals as a non-negotiable backstop for when AI is wrong, unavailable, or simply absent. This isn't a hypothetical for later; institutions are already making this trade-off, quietly, one curriculum decision at a time.

This panel doesn't survey the debate — it stages it. Three voices with genuinely different stakes in the answer argue a live motion, cross-examine each other directly rather than through the moderator, and the room votes before the debate starts and again at the end to see whether anyone's position actually moved. Expect real disagreement, not consensus dressed up as discussion.