Postgraduate medical journal
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ChatGPT was launched by OpenAI in November 2022 and within 2 months it became popular across a wide range of industrial, social, and intellectual contexts including healthcare education. This article reviews the impact of ChatGPT on research and health professions education by identifying the challenges and opportunities in these fields. ⋯ However, there is a need to address ethical concerns and limitations such as lack of real-time data, data inaccuracies, biases, plagiarism, and copyright infringement before its implementation. Future research can highlight the ways to mitigate these challenges; establish guidelines and policies; and explore how effectively ChatGPT and other AI tools can be used in the field of research and healthcare professions education.
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During a global pandemic where anaesthetists play a pertinent role in treating coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), it is crucial to inspire medical students to consider a career in anaesthetics and perioperative care. Where anaesthetic skills are vital for all surgical foundation doctors, regardless of whether they have a rotation in anaesthetics, this study seeks to establish the current level of exposure to anaesthetics in the UK medical schools' curriculum and evaluate if the current anaesthetic undergraduate curriculum is sufficient to prepare students to pass their exams and perform the duties expected of them as future junior doctors. ⋯ Our results demonstrate that there is a lack of standardization in undergraduate anaesthetics teaching nationally and an additional undergraduate anaesthetic teaching programme is required to increase understanding and provide further insight into anaesthetics. Key messages: The emergence of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has halted undergraduate medical education, in particular perioperative medicine and surgery.Exposure to anaesthesia is already limited in the medical undergraduate curriculum, with a limited number of anaesthesia-themed foundation rotations available for junior doctors.Recent UK graduates feel that undergraduate anaesthetics education is inadequate at medical school, reporting a lack of confidence in applying undergraduate anaesthesia learning outcomes.Additional anaesthetic teaching and online teaching methods are suggested ways of improving the delivery of undergraduate anaesthetic education.Can a national, standardized anaesthetics teaching curriculum improve the undergraduate knowledge base of anaesthesia?
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We aimed to examine the cost-related prescribing performance of primary care physicians who had a higher versus lower tendency of arbitrary prescribing. ⋯ Our study showed that physicians who had a higher tendency of prescribing for no clear indication are also more likely to produce costly prescriptions.
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In addition to causing enormous and enduring harms to the health of populations, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the recent earthquakes in southeast Türkiye have greatly damaged the institutions of medical education at work in these countries. This paper explores these harms and encourages medical educationalists in unaffected countries to reflect on the virtues of their own educational institutions.