{"id":19477,"date":"2024-03-11T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=19477"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T18:32:07","slug":"geisel-school-of-medicine-students-introduce-artificial-intelligence-to-preclinical-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2024\/geisel-school-of-medicine-students-introduce-artificial-intelligence-to-preclinical-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel School of Medicine Students Introduce Artificial Intelligence to Preclinical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his first year at Geisel School of Medicine, Soo Hwan Park \u201925 and several of his classmates noticed that many of their peers had backgrounds in either computer science, data science, or statistics.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis growing proportion reflected not only the increasingly close relationship between medicine and big data, but also an opportunity for an integrational curriculum aimed to prepare interested students for the rapidly changing AI-enhanced clinical landscape,\u201d Park says.<\/p>\n

But the medical school curriculum did not include content dedicated to AI in medicine.<\/p>\n

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Soo Hwan Park '25<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To address this gap, Geisel\u2019s student-run Digital Health Scholars program launched a pilot study\u2014they designed a digital health non-credit enrichment elective to sequentially introduce AI concepts within the preclinical curriculum.<\/p>\n

With Park as the lead author, the outcomes of this student-led initiative that began in Fall 2022 have recently been published in a paper in the journal Medical Education Online<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThe study,\u201d he notes, \u201cdemonstrated an AI-education that parallels the systems-based preclinical curriculum and introduces relevant technical and applicational concepts may be a viable educational model.\"<\/p>\n

\u201cThis parallel model has the potential to not only introduce both traditional statistical techniques and newer deep learning methods with clinical applications, but also the limitations and promise of the technologies,\u201d says Travis Byrum \u201925, who guided the technical aspects of the curriculum. \u201cWe suggest expanding the elective to include more students to determine the most effective way to integrate AI education into medical training.\u201d<\/p>\n

And on the importance of AI in the future of healthcare and the need to prepare students, Thomas Thesen PhD, associate professor of medical education at Geisel, who assisted the students with the study, adds, \"The promise of AI in healthcare is great and we must prepare our students of today for medical practice tomorrow. Physicians of the future must be knowledgeable about AI to critically appraise and ethically implement these technologies, ensuring that patient care is improved by AI, not overshadowed by it.\"<\/p>\n

\"The promise of AI in healthcare is great and we must prepare our students of today for medical practice tomorrow. Physicians of the future must be knowledgeable about AI to critically appraise and ethically implement these technologies, ensuring that patient care is improved by AI, not overshadowed by it.\" - Thomas Thesen, PhD, associate professor of medical education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to Park, the paper\u2019s co-authors, who are all affiliated with Geisel School of Medicine, include: Roshini Pinto-Powell, Thomas Thesen, Alexander Lindqwister \u201822, Joshua Levy, Rachael Chacko \u201825, Devina Gonzalez \u201825, Connor Bridges \u201825, Adam Schwendt \u201825, Travis Byrum \u201825, Justin Fong \u201825, Shahin Shasavari \u201825, and Saeed Hassanpour.<\/p>\n

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Overview of the Digital Health Scholars (DHS) AI integration that parallels the first-year preclinical curriculum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the recent paper in the journal Medical Education Online<\/em>, Geisel medical students detail the outcomes of a pilot study they designed and launched introducing AI concepts within the preclinical curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":19479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[1225,1227,1226,1217,1228],"class_list":["post-19477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-ai","tag-digital-health-scholars","tag-soo-hwan-park-25","tag-thomas-thesen","tag-travis-byrum","author-12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/AI_featured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-549","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19477"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19485,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions\/19485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}