- AI has the potential to significantly impact medical education and healthcare.
- Chatbots and large language models can provide a rich training ground for students to learn, while augmented reality may change the student-patient dynamic.
- AI tools like predictive analytics and imaging analysis can assist in research, diagnosis, and personalized treatment, but models are still limited and education of implications is needed.
- If developed responsibly with oversight, AI could help democratize healthcare and create new industries, but history shows technology disruptions can also lead to deception if misused. The impacts and timeline of AI in medicine remain uncertain.
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AI in Medical Education A Meta View to Start a Conversation
1. AI IN MEDICAL
EDUCATION
A META VIEW TO START A
CONVERSATION
Philip E. Bourne PhD, FACMI, February 26, 2024. /pebourne
2. I have no formal medical school
training
I was the first Chief Data Officer
of NIH
I have taught many pharmacy
students
I tend to see everything through
the lens of data
AI is only part of the story
I complained that medical school
curricula were not in keeping with
DISCLAIMER/BIA
S
3. THE (NON-MEDICAL) STUDENTS HAVE
SPOKEN
Its here, its a tool
A tool like never before
How to relate to the honor code
Dont get caught up in the hype
Wish professors knew more
Want to know more about the
implications
Soon to be posted
4. HOW DID WE GET HERE?
AI consumes data of all types:
90% of the worlds data was
generated in the last 2 years
Medical data is a mess Kudos
to GW Bush
Improved computer technology
UVA was behind but is catching
up
Breakthroughs in algorithms and
hence software providing
persistent models This has got
everyone's attention
A zetabyte is 1012 gigabytes
5. CONSIDER OUR FAVORITE
EXAMPLE -
ChatGPT is one of many forms of AI A Large Language
Model
G generative ability to generate language,
images, video, code
P pre-trained unsupervised learning on vast
amounts of content
The training is done by neural networks that mimic
the brain learning by adjusting weights of each
neuron/node). Training stops when the right result is
achieved. That network is then a model that can
produce {mostly} the right answer from data it has
never seen before
T Transformers allow for parallel computation and
treats text etc. as tokens
ChatGPT
6. Diagnostic and image analysis
Predictive analytics
Personalized medicine
Drug discovery
Robot assisted surgery
Virtual health assistants
Clinical trials research
Wearables
Healthcare operations
Mental health applications
THE NOW -
EXAMPLES
7. WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
The current deep neural networks are
equivalent to a rice grained size of the
cerebral cortex and we are yet to explore
most aspects of brain morphology
Terry Sejnowski https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1907373117
9. AR changes the student-
student; student-patient
dynamic
LLMs provide a rich training
ground
Student-mentor
relationships will be
different, but remain
important.
PEDAGOGY
Images by DALL-E
10. RESEARCH
A Biomedical Researcher
The Holy Grail of Molecular Biology
Food production
Energy production
Drugs
Achieved by DeepMind (a Google
spin off) not academia
30 interdisciplinary scientists
working together not competing
Compute power beyond a
university
13. THE 6 DS (PETER DIAMANDIS)
Digitization
Disruption
Demonetization
Dematerialization
Democratization
Time
Volume,
Velocity,
Variety
Digital media becomes bona fide
form of communication
Deception
14. KODAK A 6DS CASE STUDY
Digital media becomes bona fide
form of communication
15. WILL HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF?
MEDICINE
Digitization
Deception
Disruption
Demonetization
Dematerialization
Democratization
Time
Volume,
Velocity,
Variety
AI impact minimal
Models reach human capacity
Augmented reality, sensors
Quantum computing
Digital media becomes bona fide
form of communication
Learning modalities change
Knowledge workers must adapt
job market shifts
Robotics
Research practice changes