[Reflections on the Implications of the Developments in ChatGPT for Changes in Medical Education Models]

Sichuan Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban. 2023 Sep;54(5):937-940. doi: 10.12182/20231360302.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Ever since its official launch, Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, or ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, has attracted much attention from the education community. ChatGPT can play an important role in the field of medical education, with its potential applications ranging from assisting teachers in designing individualized teaching scenarios to enhancing students' practical ability for solving clinical problems and improving teaching and research efficiency. With the developments in technology, it is inevitable that ChatGPT, or other generative AI models, will be thoroughly integrated in more and more medical contexts, which will further enhance the efficiency and quality of medical services and allow doctors to spend more time interacting with patients and implement personalized health management. Herein, we suggested that proactive reflections be made to figure out the best way to cultivate health professional in the context of New Medical Education, to help more medical professionals enhance their understanding of developments in artificial intelligence, and to make preparations for the challenges that will emerge in the new round of technological revolution. Medical educators should focus on guiding students to make proper use of AI tools in the appropriate context, thereby prevening abuse or overreliance caused by a lack of discrimating ability. Teachers should focus on helping medical students make improvements in clinical reasoning skills, self-directed learning, and clinical practical skills. Teachers should stress the importance for medical students to understand the philosophical implications of the mind-body unity concept, holistic medical thinking, and systematic medical thinking. It is important to enhance medical students' humanistic qualities, cultivate their empathy and communication skills, and continually enhance their ability to meet the requirements of individualized precision diagnosis and treatment so that they will better adapt to the future developments in medicine.

人工智能语言处理机器人ChatGPT(Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer)自推出以来,已经受到教育界的广泛关注。ChatGPT可以在医学教育领域发挥重要作用,可能的应用包括帮助教师设计个性化教学场景、提升学生临床实际问题解决能力和提升教学研究效率等。随着科技的发展,像ChatGPT这样的生成式人工智能模型必然将深入融合到更多医学场景中,并进一步提升医疗服务的效率和质量,让医生有更多的时间与患者沟通交流及实施个性化健康管理。本文作者提出应前瞻性地思考如何培养新医科专业人才,帮助更多的医学专业人员提升对人工智能发展的认知度,做好应对新一轮科技革命挑战的准备。医学教师应注重引导学生在正确的场景下使用人工智能工具,防止缺乏甄别能力的滥用和依赖。教师应加强医学生在临床思维、自主学习和临床实操能力方面的提升,突出医学生对身心同一论哲学内涵、整体医学思维和系统医学思维的理解,重点提升医学生的人文素养,培养共情能力和沟通能力,不断提升医学生满足个性化、精准性诊疗需求的能力,以更好地适应未来新医学的发展。

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; ChatGPT; Medical education.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Clinical Competence
  • Education, Medical*
  • Educational Status
  • Humans
  • Students