AI-powered standardised patients: evaluating ChatGPT-4o's impact on clinical case management in intern physicians.
Journal:
BMC medical education
PMID:
39979969
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.