E-Learning & Technology
This column aims to provide insight and practical information on the impact of e-learning on CME/CPD and the latest trends in technology available to enhance the online learning experience.
AI: Friend or Foe in CPD Research
The Virtual Research Roundtable focused on AI’s dual role in CPD research, presented by Terry Soleas. The session emphasized ethical AI use, highlighting its potential benefits and risks in education.
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SACME 2024 Annual Meeting Plenary: Applied AI in Health—What the Education Field Needs to Know
Recent rapid advances in AI have struck the CME/CPD community with a set of challenges and opportunities. What to do? What is next? How will we handle the change? — are just some of the questions that come to our mind.
In this masterful lecture on Applied AI in Health: What the Education Field Needs to Know, Dr. Mamdani provided insight that can help us address the emerging questions. The lecture included a set of convincing examples of how AI improves healthcare delivery, reflected on what AI is and the complexity of its implementation, and discussed how the CPD community can better lead the digital transformation in the AI-enhanced world.
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E-Learning & Technology: Leveraging ChatGPT for Qualitative Analysis of Learners’ Feedback in CME/CPD Courses
The process of analyzing this course feedback through traditional human-conducted qualitative methods can be a daunting task. It’s a labor-intensive process that usually involves reading, coding, and thematic analysis. The time-consuming nature of this task often leads to shortcuts, such as analyzing only a small sample of data or skimming through the text, which can result in suboptimal and biased analysis. This is where we need a more efficient and reliable solution. Advanced AI models like ChatGPT offer a promising solution for this challenge. This process can be significantly streamlined, providing CPD professionals with rapid, accurate, and actionable insights, all while maintaining a sufficient level of reliability.
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AI and its Implications for Healthcare Professions’ Education
On Monday, January 22, the SACME Virtual Journal Club (VJC) hosted Professor William Hersh, MD of the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine, for a talk titled “Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Health Professions’ Education.” Dr. Hersh, a professor in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, provided a brief history of […]
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E-Learning & Technology
At the recent CMEpalooza Fall 2023 Conference, Andy Crim and Brian McGowan presented the Top 10 Best Practices in GenAI Prompt Engineering, offering a guide to improve AI communication. Reflecting on Socrates’s skepticism of writing as a learning tool, the article discusses how modern text and AI can facilitate dialogue and knowledge creation, aligning with Socratic principles.
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Hybrid Flexible (HyFlex) Learning in CPD: An Evolving CPD Modality
By Raynor Denitzio, CE News Reporter On Tuesday, June 6, James W. Kim, MBBCh, PgDip, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, and Heather MacNeill, MD, BSc(PT), MScCH (HPTE), FRCPC Associate Professor, University of Toronto, offered a dynamic SACME sponsored workshop titled “Hybrid Flexible (HyFlex) Learning in CPD.” Hybrid Flexible or “HyFlex” is an […]
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Learning Management System, Learning Experience Platform, or Something New: What is the Fuss About?
Technology helps us improve our lives. It allows us to do things we have already been doing – but better, faster, and differently. The number of tools we can use to enhance CME/CPD activities is growing. They come in various shapes and formats. They are usually grouped in packages that allow comprehensive learning delivery.
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Technology-Enhanced CPD: Sailing Safely Through the COVID-19 Storm and Building a Better New Normal
This is a story of growth. CE News E-learning & Technology column posts are usually written as a delicate balance between the need to tackle complex socio-technical aspects of technology-enhanced CPD (TECPD) and the need to deliver a short, easy-to-read article that CE news readers expect. Therefore, one of the first posts I created for CE News got editors’ feedback “this is a good article, but it looks like something that may work better in a journal such as JCEHP, rather than for CE news.” I’m pleased to say that that article has been published in the latest JCEHP edition (May 2021).
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Blended Learning Compared to Traditional Learning in Medical Education: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Recomended article: Blended learning, which combines face-to-face learning and e-learning, has grown rapidly to be commonly used in education. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of this learning approach has not been completely quantitatively synthesized and evaluated using knowledge outcomes in health education. Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of…
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Blending Learning Formats – A Story on how Baking a Cookie and Impactful Learning Interrelate
Michele Harper, MD, is a phenomenal physician-leader who has detailed, in exquisite writing, the troubling and destructive gap many patients face in accessing equitable, humanistic care and the challenges healthcare professionals of color
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