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Reimagining Medical Education In The Age Of Ai, Steven A. Wartman, C. Donald Combs
Reimagining Medical Education In The Age Of Ai, Steven A. Wartman, C. Donald Combs
Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Faculty Publications
Available medical knowledge exceeds the organizing capacity of the human mind, yet medical education remains based on information acquisition and application. Complicating this information overload crisis among learners is the fact that physicians' skill sets now must include collaborating with and managing artificial intelligence (AI) applications that aggregate big data, generate diagnostic and treatment recommendations, and assign confidence ratings to those recommendations. Thus, an overhaul of medical school curricula is due and should focus on knowledge management (rather than information acquisition), effective use of AI, improved communication, and empathy cultivation.
Emerging Roles Of Virtual Patients In The Age Of Ai, C. Donald Combs, P. Ford Combs
Emerging Roles Of Virtual Patients In The Age Of Ai, C. Donald Combs, P. Ford Combs
Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering Faculty Publications
Today's web-enabled and virtual approach to medical education is different from the 20th century's Flexner-dominated approach. Now, lectures get less emphasis and more emphasis is placed on learning via early clinical exposure, standardized patients, and other simulations. This article reviews literature on virtual patients (VPs) and their underlying virtual reality technology, examines VPs' potential through the example of psychiatric intake teaching, and identifies promises and perils posed by VP use in medical education.