Tag: medical education
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Link: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Cross-Sectional Study Among Medical Students on Application, Education, and Ethical Aspects
https://mededu.jmir.org/2024/1/e51247/ “There was widespread consensus (385/487, 74.9%) on the need for AI and AI ethics instruction in medical education, although the current offerings were deemed inadequate. Regarding the AI ethics education content, all proposed topics were rated as highly relevant.”
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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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KeyLIME podcast
I saw Jonathan Sherbino at the conference yesterday, and was reminded of the excellent KeyLIME podcast. You should definitely check it out.
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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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Use language models to explore a space of possibilities
Strong E, DiGiammarino A, Weng Y, et al. Chatbot vs Medical Student Performance on Free-Response Clinical Reasoning Examinations. JAMA Intern Med. Published online July 17, 2023. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2909 A popular chatbot is an interface for the generative pretrained transformer (GPT) large language model artificial intelligence (AI) system that generates humanlike text in response to user input.…
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Article: Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models
Singhal, K., et al. (2023). Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models (arXiv:2305.09617). arXiv. From the abstract: We performed detailed human evaluations on long-form questions along multiple axes relevant to clinical applications. In pairwise comparative ranking of 1066 consumer medical questions, physicians preferred Med-PaLM 2 answers to those produced by physicians on eight…
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Weekly digest (15-21 May 2023)
I spent quite a bit of time this week working on this essay, where I present an overview of large language models (LLMs) through the lens of ChatGPT, and explore some of the implications of the technology. I conclude with the suggestion that higher education is making the same mistakes we did when the internet…
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Isn’t ‘medical education’ just ‘education’? Are the principles of learning and teaching in the context of medicine and the allied health professions different to other contexts? Why do we have journals of ‘medical education’ and ‘health professions education’? Maybe it’s just to signal to those communities that this is for them. Or is there something…
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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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Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify
Bordage, G. (2009). Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify. Medical Education, 43(4), 312–319. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03295.x Conceptual frameworks represent ways of thinking about a problem or a study, or ways of representing how complex things work the way they do. A nice position paper that emphasises the value of conceptual frameworks as a tool for thinking, not…
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Translating AI into the clinical setting at UC Irvine – AI Med
Ultimately, many of these shortcomings exist because few if any physicians are actively engaged in developing the next generation of technology, AI or otherwise. It is interesting to note the vast majority of medical startup companies are founded with limited if any physician involvement or oversight.Without experts that deeply understand both the medical and technical…
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Emotions and assessment: considerations for rater‐based judgements of entrustment
We identify and discuss three different interpretations of the influence of raters’ emotions during assessments: (i) emotions lead to biased decision making; (ii) emotions contribute random noise to assessment, and (iii) emotions constitute legitimate sources of information that contribute to assessment decisions. We discuss these three interpretations in terms of areas for future research and…
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SAAHE podcast 03 – Standard setting, with Scarpa Schoeman
Would it be accurate to say the almost universal pass mark of 50% is completely arbitrary and almost indefensible?I would say it’s completely arbitrary and totally indefensible. Scarpa Schoeman In this conversation, Scarpa and I talk about his experience of standard setting in medical education. Scarpa has published a variety of peer-reviewed articles and presented…
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Objective Structured Clinical Exams
This is the first draft of the next piece of content that I’ll be publishing in my Clinical Teacher app. Abstract The Objective Structured Clinical Examination was introduced as an assessment method that aimed to address some of the challenges that arose with the assessment of students’ competence in clinical skills. In a traditional clinical…
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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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Reflections on SAAHE 2010
The SAAHE conference has come and gone for the 3rd year running. It’s been an interesting and engaging 3 days, and since I’ve already posted all my notes, these are just a few thoughts on what it’s like having a conference in South Africa. And it’s the last post, I promise. To get the negative…