Students and teachers alike are anxiously wondering how Large Language Model (LLM) AI tools like ChatGPT and others will disrupt education. Will it lead to a rash of plagiarism and corner-cutting, with students no longer learning anything? Will legitimate uses get flagged by overzealous teachers as “cheating”?? Can we even tell the difference between those possibilities???
These concerns are amplified further when you consider the high stakes world of graduate and medical education. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an excellent editorial on this topic:
“Medical schools face a dual challenge: they need to both teach students how to utilize AI in their practice and adapt to the emerging academic use of AI by students and faculty. Medical students are already starting to apply AI in their studying and learning, generating disease schema from chatbots and anticipating teaching points. Faculty are contemplating how AI can help them design courses and evaluations…
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