Tag: hpe

Health Professions Education with AI – SUPSI

Apr 3, 2025

in AI, Learning, Presentation, Workshop

AI policy, assessment, generative AI, health professions education, hpe, learning, nursing education, SUPSI, teaching, transformative education

In this workshop presentation, I argue that using AI to support learning represents an opportunity to explore an alternative educational paradigm where we reimagine what’s possible, rather than doing the same thing, only better.
Social constructivism and AI: A new paradigm

Mar 10, 2025

in AI, Education, Learning, Teaching

health professions education, hpe, human characteristics, human-only, learning theory, social constructivism, social learning, social learning theory

In which I push back against traditional assumptions by exploring how social constructivism and AI could transform health professions education. I ask if human-only teaching is essential, and suggest a reimagining of social constructivism to include AI systems that recreate valued educational characteristics, while expanding opportunities for more accessible and equitable learning.
Using AI as a thinking partner to support learning

Mar 3, 2025

in AI, Learning

abstract conceptualisation, academic skill, active experimentation, cognition, concrete experience, experiential learning, generative AI, health professions education, hpe, learning cycle, physiotherapy education, professional education, reflective observation

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.
Generative AI in health professions education – Workshop for Tartu Health Care College

Nov 21, 2024

in AI, Presentation, Workshop

AI in HPE, AI in research, Estonia, generative AI, health professions education, health professions educators, hpe, HPE workshop, Tartu

An overview of the workshop I facilitated for an audience of health professions educators, at the Tartu Health Care College in Estonia.
The remembering self and the experiencing self

Oct 19, 2024

in Clinical, Education

experience, health professions education, hpe, Memory, pain, psychology

How might significant aspects of health professions education change, if we discover that patients’ memories of their pain can’t be trusted?
Generative AI in health professions education – SUPSI

Oct 18, 2024

in AI, Presentation, Workshop

health professions education, hpe, SUPSI, Switzerland

An overview of the presentation I gave during a workshop on Generative AI in HPE, at SUPSI in Switzerland.
More details on HPE-Bot

Oct 15, 2024

in AI, Education, Health, Learning

chatbot, generative AI, health professions education, hpe, 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.
Short podcast series on health professions education in South Africa

Jun 21, 2024

in Education, Health, Podcast

health professions education, hpe, phd research, research outputs, saahe, scholarship

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.
In Beta podcast: Generative AI in health professions education

Mar 1, 2024

in AI, Education

artificial intelligence, assessment, curriculum development, health professions education, hpe, HPE-Bot, in beta, Lamber Schuwirth, learning, physio education, physiotherapy education, podcast

#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;…
New project: Open access, open source resource on generative AI in health professions education

Jan 1, 2024

in AI

Github Pages, health professions education, hpe, open access, open source

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:
Resource: Towards a curated library for AI in healthcare

Jan 20, 2020

in AI, Clinical, Reading, Research

artificial intelligence, clinical practice, healthcare, hpe, resource, zotero

I’ve started working on what will eventually become a curated library of resources that I’m using for my research on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on clinical practice. At the moment it’s just a public repository of the articles, podcasts, blog posts that I’ve read or listened to and then saved in…
SAAHE podcast 08 – Building a career in HPE, with Vanessa Burch

Jun 6, 2019

in Podcast

career, career capital, health professions education, hpe, 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…