AI-powered standardised patients: evaluating ChatGPT-4o's impact on clinical case management in intern physicians.

Journal: BMC medical education
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Artificial Intelligence is currently being applied in healthcare for diagnosis, decision-making and education. ChatGPT-4o, with its advanced language and problem-solving capabilities, offers an innovative alternative as a virtual standardised patient in clinical training. Intern physicians are expected to develop clinical case management skills such as problem-solving, clinical reasoning and crisis management. In this study, ChatGPT-4o's served as virtual standardised patient and medical interns as physicians on clinical case management. This study aimed to evaluate intern physicians' competencies in clinical case management; problem-solving, clinical reasoning, crisis management and explore the impact and potential of ChatGPT-4o as a viable tool for assessing these competencies.

Authors

  • Selcen Öncü
    Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey. selcenoncu@hotmail.com.
  • Fulya Torun
    Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies, Faculty of Education, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey.
  • Hilal Hatice Ülkü
    Aydın Vocational School, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey.