Tag: health professions education
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A process for getting good-enough outputs from OpenAI’s Deep Research
A practical guide to using OpenAI’s Deep Research feature effectively, detailing a four-step process that involves creating prompts with ChatGPT o1, answering clarifying questions, generating comprehensive reports in minutes instead of days, and achieving “good-enough” results that would typically require weeks of research.
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Using AI as a thinking partner to support learning
Instead of outsourcing your thinking to AI, discover how it can create supportive learning environments for deeper work by generating scenarios, providing alternative perspectives, organising your insights, and offering feedback on your ideas.
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Generative AI in health professions education – Workshop for Tartu Health Care College
An overview of the workshop I facilitated for an audience of health professions educators, at the Tartu Health Care College in Estonia.
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Generative AI in Health Professions Education – FAIMER Connect Continued Learning
The second session of the FAIMER Connect Continued Learning series explored the impact and potential of generative AI in the fields of health professions practice, education, and research.
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The remembering self and the experiencing self
How might significant aspects of health professions education change, if we discover that patients’ memories of their pain can’t be trusted?
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Generative AI in health professions education – SUPSI
An overview of the presentation I gave during a workshop on Generative AI in HPE, at SUPSI in Switzerland.
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More details on HPE-Bot
HPE-Bot 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.
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Physiopedia MOOC: AI in practice, education, and research
I’ve been working with Physiopedia for a couple of months, to prepare an open online course on AI in physiotherapy, across education, practice, and research. The course includes 4 modules and 2 webinars, and is available for free.
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Coming to terms with generative AI – FAIMER Connect Continued Learning
Generative AI is transforming healthcare and education, offering unparalleled access to expertise across multiple knowledge domains. In this FAIMER Connect Learning series presentation, I explore its potential and challenges, from effective prompting to skills gap reduction. As AI reshapes professional practice, working with it as a collaborative partner is going to be key to successful…
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Short podcast series on health professions education in South Africa
A few years ago I initiated a project in SAAHE where I started interviewing recent PhD graduates to promote the work being done in South African health professions education. I realised recently that I hadn’t captured that series here as part of my portfolio, so I’ve posted it here for my own records.
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In Beta podcast: Generative AI in health professions education
#33 – Generative AI in health professions education In this conversation, Ben and I speak to Lambert Schuwirth to get his take on the impact of generative AI in health professions education. The conversation covers the development of HPE-Bot from a pedagogical perspective; the potential impact of generative AI on HPE teaching, learning, and assessment;…
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Using Claude to create patient personas for health professions education
Health professions education aims to provide students with practical clinical experience and skills in person-centred care before graduating, and simulated patient interactions are a potential teaching method. However, these interactions can be resource-intensive and expensive, especially if actors are included. AI assistants like Claude provide a scalable alternative for role-playing dialogue. This post describes the…
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New project: Open access, open source resource on generative AI in health professions education
I’ve created a new project called Generative AI in Health Professions Education, which I think is notable for a few reasons: There are a few reasons for starting the project: A few final points:
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AI and expertise in professional education – ADAPT conference
At the 2023 ADAPT physiotherapy conference, I discussed the impact of generative AI on physiotherapy education, emphasising how it challenges the traditional role of universities in professional training by offering accessible and personalised expertise. The presentation highlighted AI’s potential to democratise learning, enhance project-based education, and create affordable learning alternatives outside formal degree programs. I…
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With great power comes great ambiguity – ENPHE conference
I was invited to give a keynote address at the 2023 ENPHE conference, on the topic of AI in health professions education, I used the metaphor of the antihero to emphasise the complex ethical implications of this technology. By rejecting simplistic views of AI as solely beneficial or harmful, I advocate for nuanced human-machine partnerships.…
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Symposium – Artificial intelligence and health professions education
These notes are less about what was presented and more about my own thoughts that were sparked as I listened to the session. The panel members included: We need to make sure that we’re not holding up human intelligence as some kind of peak in the intelligence landscape. AI will exceed the computational ability of…
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Surprised at how little we’re talking about AI in #meded
I’ve been surprised at how little we’re talking about AI at the conference. I know that I can get sucked into a bubble, where all of my attention is taken up by what’s coming through my feed. But, even taking this into consideration, I’d expected a lot more conversation around AI at AMEE. When it…
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A criticism of the #meded community
In my experience, the #meded community suffers (a lot) from a Not Invented Here bias, where research findings from outside the community are ignored. Or maybe they’re simply assumed not to exist. Or probably, there’s an acknowledgement of their existence but a belief that, because the research wasn’t done in the context of medical education,…
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Course: Becoming an Expert Educator in the Healthcare Professions
Presentation by Rakesh Patel on a MOOC that he developed while at Nottingham. He basically took the MSc programme he was running at the time, and converted it into an open online course. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/expert-educator-health-professions “Connect with a global network of multi-professional educators in healthcare, and gain new perspectives on your teaching strategies and values as…