Tag: patient interactions
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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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Comment: Will robots make doctors obsolete? Nothing could be further from the truth.
The problem of overdiagnosis is often mentioned in relation to two common cancers: breast and prostate. In both cases, enhanced technology is already detecting small abnormalities that may never result in harm during a lifetime. Machine-learning may trump human interpretation but merely making a diagnosis does not bring us closer to the truth about the…