I’ve posted about HPE-Bot before, but wanted to give it another plug, as I recently learned a bit more about the new features in the product.
If you don’t know, HPE-Bot is a health professions AI tutor for students of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health. There are free and commercial tiers for the service, with additional support integrated in the paid service.
Here are some comments from Lambert Schuwirth, who is guiding the project:
We have worked extremely hard to ensure that the questions and prompts in the back end are optimised for learning. We have improved the function that creates ad hoc key-feature approach questions, tailored to the chat and learning of the student. And we have built a new function that challenges the student’s clinical/critical reasoning and provides feedback. There is a ‘magic question’ function that helps the student ask more questions to broaden their learning, and a deep dive function that helps them deepen their learning. They can upload documents (including their own handwritten notes) to include them in the interaction with the bot.
We have also provided guidance to help students learn optimally, using the best-available evidence from the literature and combined it with our own experiences as teachers.
This is a fantastic project being driven by someone deeply committed to health professions and medical education. If you think that generative AI is over-hyped, or that it doesn’t really have a place in HPE, consider playing around with this tool. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.