Tag: health professions education
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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…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (workshop) | ChatGPT and its implications for health professions education
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Background The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 was accompanied by an explosion of interest in both mainstream and academic media. It has simultaneously been described as the saviour of higher education, and the beginning of the end. The fact is, it could be both.…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (oral presentation) | Is ‘being human’ enough? Preparing for clinical practice in the age of artificial intelligence
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Introduction Identity is central to our understanding of the health professions, and much of professionaleducation revolves around this core value. The introduction of artificially intelligent tools (AI-based systems) into clinical practice has led to resistance in the face of perceived threats to clinician autonomy (Jussupow…
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Comment: Developing medical artificial intelligence leaders
This is an open-access Really Good Stuff article from the journal Medical Education. I was excited to read it as I thought it might provide some useful ideas for some of my teaching, but I was disappointed in the evaluation of the project. Machine learning applications are increasingly used in medicine. The demand for ‘augmented…
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Now might be a good time to stop “teaching students”
There’s a lot of anxiety among health professions educators right now as they try to move classes and entire courses online. They weren’t trained to do this, have little experience doing this, and many may not even want to do this. Hardly an inspiring thought. And I found myself agreeing with them. They didn’t sign…
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SAAHE podcast 08 – Building a career in HPE, with Vanessa Burch
That for me is probably the most rewarding thing about my own career; not what I’ve achieved but what I’ve seen others achieve. Vanessa Burch In this conversation, we take a slightly different perspective the topic of health professions education. Instead of speaking to someone who has completed a PhD in HPE, I talk to…
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The fate of medicine in the time of AI
Source: Coiera, E. (2018). The fate of medicine in the time of AI. The challenges of real-world implementation alone mean that we probably will see little change to clinical practice from AI in the next 5 years. We should certainly see changes in 10 years, and there is a real prospect of massive change in…
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An introduction to artificial intelligence in clinical practice and education
Two weeks ago I presented some of my thoughts on the implications of AI and machine learning in clinical practice and health professions education at the 2018 SAAHE conference. Here are the slides I used (20 slides for 20 seconds each) with a very brief description of each slide. This presentation is based on a…
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Open Online Courses in Health Professions Education: A systematic review
This is the presentation that I gave at the recent SAAHE conference in Port Elizabeth. Open Online Courses in Health Professions Education: A systematic review from Michael Rowe