Tag: empathy
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Primary Care
The rapid advancement of AI in primary care is outpacing professional expectations. A 2019 study showed GP skepticism about AI’s potential in diagnosis and patient interaction. However, recent developments like Google DeepMind’s AMIE demonstrate AI’s superior performance in these areas, highlighting the need for the medical field to adapt quickly to technological changes.
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Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions
Ayers, J. W., et al. (2023). Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum. JAMA Internal Medicine. In this cross-sectional study within the context of patient questions in a public online forum, chatbot responses were longer than physician responses, and the study’s health care professional evaluators…
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Podcast – Being Good and Doing Good (Making Sense #44)
https://samharris.org/podcasts/being-good-and-doing-good/ In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Oxford philosopher William MacAskill about effective altruism, moral illusions, existential risk, and other topics. William MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was educated at Cambridge, Princeton, and Oxford. He is one of the primary voices in…
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Comment: Could robots make us better humans?
This is one of his arguments for listening to AI-generated music, studying how computers do maths and…gazing at digitally produced paintings: to understand how advanced machines work at the deepest level, in order to make sure we know everything about the technology that is now built into our lives. Harris, J. (2019). Could robots make…
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Why AI Doesn’t Threaten Doctors
But while the cold perfection of A.I. makes for a more perfect medical diagnosis, it can’t replace a human. After all, we love and embrace physicians who approach their work with empathy for patients and a warm understanding of what their fellow human beings are going through. Source: Why AI Doesn’t Threaten Doctors I don’t…
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Introducing the Humanities into physiotherapy education
This post has been modified and published on The Conversation: Africa as Physiotherapy students have much to learn from the humanities. I’m increasingly drawn to the idea of integrating some aspect of the Humanities into undergraduate physiotherapy education. We focus (almost) all of the curriculum on the basic sciences and then the clinical sciences, which has a certain…
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Developing empathy in clinical education
This post was originally written for the Clinical Teacher iPad app, and can be downloaded there as well. Introduction Empathy is the ability to understand the emotional context of other people and respond to them appropriately. It has been identified as the cornerstone of the clinician-patient relationship and is recognised as one of the most…
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David Hirsh seminar – Longitudinal integrated clerkships
How to build longitudinal Integrated Clerkships to fit context: Practical tools for modern pedagogy (Prof. David Hirsh, Harvard Medical School) Last week I attended a seminar by Prof. David Hirsh from Harvard Medical School, where he discussed the implementation of the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) in their programme. Here are my notes from the seminar.…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-02-06
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Developing compassion and empathy as part of a Professional Ethics module
I’ve been spending some time this week working with our 4th year students in the Professional Ethics module. One of our biggest challenges is that our students (and most other students in healthcare programmes) see characteristics like compassion, empathy, courage, shame, and emotional response as something that they need to “have”, like a stethoscope or…