The role of artificial intelligence in learning and professional development for healthcare professionals
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This article discusses the emerging role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the learning and professional development of healthcare professionals. It provides a brief history of AI, current and past applications in healthcare education and training, and discusses why and how health leaders can revolutionize education system practices using AI in healthcare education. It also discusses potential implications of AI on human educators like clinical educators and provides recommendations for health leaders to support the application of AI in the learning and professional development of healthcare professionals.
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Technologies such as AI are needed to enable healthcare professionals to effectively use this knowledge to practice medicine.
“Technologies such as AI are needed to enable healthcare professionals to effectively use this knowledge to practice medicine. 22”
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AI adoption in healthcare education has progressed rapidly in technologically advanced countries such as the United States, Canada, and Germany.
“AI adoption in healthcare education has progressed rapidly in technologically advanced countries such as the United States, Canada, and Germany, where institutions have incorporated AI-driven simulations, virtual standardized patients, and clinical decision-support systems into curricula [4].”
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AI-based intelligent tutoring systems are adaptive instructional systems that try to emulate the benefits of one-on-one human tutoring.
“AI-based ITSs are adaptive instructional systems that try to emulate the benefits of one-on-one human tutoring [11].”
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- Authors
- Randhawa, G. K., & Jackson, M.
- Affiliations
- Island Health (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Randhawa, Gurprit K.
- Venue
- Healthcare Management Forum
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-12-05
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 19-24
- ISSN
- 0840-4704 (ISSN-L)
- 2352-3883
- OpenAlex
- W2993100816
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 23
- Citations by year
- 2026: 15 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 1.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Healthcare Management Forum (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence, healthcare education, professional development, healthcare workers, clinical instructors, healthcare leadership, artificial intelligence in education, future of learning
- MeSH terms
- Artificial Intelligence, Canada, Education, Medical, Education, Medical, Continuing, Humans
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