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Can ChatGPT pass the life support exams without entering the American heart association course?

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Fijačko, Nino, Gosak, Lucija, Štiglic, Gregor, Picard, Christopher T., John Douma, Matthew·2023·Resuscitation

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  • ChatGPT has low performance in some topics, such as failing a parasitology exam for Korean medical students.

    “Additionally, other concerns include the current inability of ChatGPT to handle images as well as its low performance in some topics (e.g., failure to pass a parasitology exam for Korean medical students), and the issue of possible plagiarism [33,56,57,58,70,75].”

    From ChatGPT Utility in Healthcare Education, Research, and Practice: Systematic Review on the Promising Perspectives and Valid Concerns (2023) · cites this paper as [33]

    In “To the Editor” (page unavailable), the paper reports that ChatGPT failed to reach the passing threshold on AHA life-support exams, supporting the general point that it performed poorly on some exams. It does not discuss a parasitology exam or Korean medical students; those details are not supported by this source. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • ChatGPT availability can motivate health care education based on the personalized interaction it provides, enabling powerful self-learning and utility as an adjunct in group learning.

    “Additionally, ChatGPT availability can be considered as a motivation in health care education based on the personalized interaction it provides, enabling powerful self-learning as well as its utility as an adjunct in group learning [30,33,36,57,58].”

    From ChatGPT Utility in Healthcare Education, Research, and Practice: Systematic Review on the Promising Perspectives and Valid Concerns (2023) · cites this paper as [33]

    In “To the Editor” (page not specified), the paper describes ChatGPT as a promising self-learning tool for preparing for life-support exams and notes that it provided explanations for scenario-based answers. It does not address whether personalized interaction motivates health care education or whether ChatGPT is useful as an adjunct in group learning. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • ChatGPT currently cannot handle images.

    “Additionally, other concerns include the current inability of ChatGPT to handle images as well as its low performance in some topics (e.g., failure to pass a parasitology exam for Korean medical students), and the issue of possible plagiarism [33,56,57,58,70,75].”
  • Fijačko et al. (2023) observed that ChatGPT provided insightful explanations in response to life support scenario-based questions.

    “Fijačko et al. (2023) observed that ChatGPT provided insightful explanations in response to life support scenario‐based questions”
  • ChatGPT use in health care education raises the issue of possible plagiarism.

    “Additionally, other concerns include the current inability of ChatGPT to handle images as well as its low performance in some topics (e.g., failure to pass a parasitology exam for Korean medical students), and the issue of possible plagiarism [33,56,57,58,70,75].”

    From ChatGPT Utility in Healthcare Education, Research, and Practice: Systematic Review on the Promising Perspectives and Valid Concerns (2023) · cites this paper as [33]

    The paper’s 'To the Editor' section discusses ChatGPT’s life-support exam performance and its inability to interpret images, but does not address plagiarism. Searches for plagiarism and academic-integrity concerns found no relevant passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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Authors
Fijačko, N., Gosak, L., Štiglic, G., Picard, C. T., & John Douma, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Maribor (SI)
  • University of Alberta (CA)
Corresponding author
Fijačko, Nino
Venue
Resuscitation
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2023-04
Volume
185
Pages
109732
ISSN
0300-9572 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4319868628
Cited by
206
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 84
FWCI
8.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Resuscitation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
Keywords
ChatGPT, large language models, artificial intelligence, basic life support, advanced cardiac life support, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, scenario-based questions, ChatGPT-4, ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-3
MeSH terms
American Heart Association, Clinical Competence, Educational Measurement, Humans

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