Twelve tips: Using generative AI to create and optimize content for virtual patient simulations.

IF 3.3 2区教育学 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Medical Teacher Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI:10.1080/0142159X.2025.2501252

Michael Moser, Nancy Posel, Olivia Ganescu, David Fleiszer

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Abstract

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly being used in medical education, including the creation of content for clinical virtual patient simulation (VPS). We share practical insights drawn from our experience as medical educators, designed to help other educators integrate GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude. We provide 12 practical tips that illustrate how GenAI can be used for the creation of content for VPS to streamline case development and increase realism for our learners. GenAI saves resources of time and expense by streamlining case creation, including creating patient images, clinical reports, and assessment questions. Clinical content experts can now concentrate on defining the case focus and on final-stage review, improving efficiency. It simplifies the development of effective scoring rubrics and meaningful formative feedback, enhancing learner engagement and clinical reasoning. By reducing the time needed to create VPS content, GenAI can allow educators to focus more on educational objectives and feedback to programs and learners. While GenAI is new and has limitations, these are likely to be addressed in the near future. As GenAI evolves, it will continue to transform VPS through improved realism, streamlined case creation, and more informative feedback, further supporting its role in medical education.

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12个提示：使用生成式人工智能创建和优化虚拟患者模拟内容。

生成式人工智能（GenAI）越来越多地用于医学教育，包括创建临床虚拟患者模拟（VPS）的内容。我们分享我们作为医学教育者的实际经验，旨在帮助其他教育者整合GenAI工具，如ChatGPT、Gemini或Claude。我们提供了12个实用技巧，说明如何使用GenAI为VPS创建内容，以简化案例开发并增加学习者的现实性。GenAI通过简化病例创建，包括创建患者图像、临床报告和评估问题，节省了时间和费用。临床内容专家现在可以集中精力确定病例重点和最后阶段的审查，提高效率。它简化了有效评分标准和有意义的形成性反馈的开发，提高了学习者的参与度和临床推理能力。通过减少创建VPS内容所需的时间，GenAI可以让教育工作者更多地关注教育目标，并向课程和学习者提供反馈。虽然GenAI是一种新技术，并且存在局限性，但这些问题可能会在不久的将来得到解决。随着GenAI的发展，它将继续通过改进现实性、简化病例创建和更多信息反馈来改变VPS，进一步支持其在医学教育中的作用。

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来源期刊

Medical Teacher 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

7.80

自引率

8.50%

发文量

396

审稿时长

3-6 weeks

期刊介绍： Medical Teacher provides accounts of new teaching methods, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, and serves as a forum for communication between medical teachers and those involved in general education. In particular, the journal recognizes the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning at a time when the content of the curriculum—from medical procedures to policy changes in health care provision—is also changing. The journal features reports of innovation and research in medical education, case studies, survey articles, practical guidelines, reviews of current literature and book reviews. All articles are peer reviewed.