Find out how AI-based technologies are changing medical education, allowing students to effectively learn anatomy, practice surgeries and study smarter than ever.
Future of medical education: learning using AI tools
Imagine this, you are in the first year of medical school, balancing in a dark library, trying to save as much knowledge of nerves, arteries and bones of the human body as you can. The anatomy book weighs down more than your prospective student loan. However, you do not need to flick through hundreds of pages, you put Virtual Reality (VR) goggles on. The human body is suddenly there in 3D in front of you and a mere flick of the hand, you skin it, delve into the muscle layers or zoom into the beating heart. And that is not science fiction because it has been happening today.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing medical education since it eliminates mind-numbing approaches to learning and transforms the latter into a customized, personalized, and incredibly entertaining process.
Can AI be a Digital Mentor to Medical Students?
Medical school was never an easy task-long days, unfamiliar material and the ever-present pressure that you are not only taking tests, but one day you will be the one saving lives. Historically, learning entailed lectures, cutting up of cadavers and flash cards at its best. But AI is coming in as the digital teacher who never sleeps and learns every way that you best learn.
In contrast to one-size-fits-all lecture, the AI-powered platforms can identify a weakness area of a student and set the pace, style, and depth of the teaching in accordance. Consider it like having your own private tutor who knows you better than you yourself do when it comes to your weaknesses--and who works to improve them day and night, night and day.
Flat Diagrams to Living Anatomy
Examples: Full Anatomy & AI-empowered 3D Display
Cadavers and two-dimensional images have been used in teaching anatomy over the last few decades. As much as it has advantages, this technique has its shortcomings. Once a body is dissected, it remains so.
Today, we have such AI-aided products as Complete Anatomy or BioDigital Human where a student can communicate with the high-quality, precise model of the body in 3D. It allows rotation, dissection, zooming, and even an elephant may be stressed by the process of blood moving in the body or muscle contraction. Not only does AI make learning as realistic as possible with the visuals being anatomically accurate, generally up-to-date with current medical discoveries, and in some cases even tailor-made to fit a patient scan at hand, but also an incredibly immersive experience.
Training of Complex Surgeries Without the Risk
Touch Surgery & Virtual Reality Simulation is a good example. Take the example of a pilot being trained to make his/her first flight. He/she cannot begin with a real passenger aircraft. Even surgeons require a secure field in which to exercise. Surgical simulators enabled with AI can do just that.
There are applications such as Touch Surgery that apply AI to devise step-by-step interactive surgeries simulation. Students have an opportunity to perform a surgery on the virtual patient, to make decisions in real-time conditions, and to get real-time feedback. and even receiving the resistance of the tissues of bodies-simulating surgery-some VR-based systems coupled with haptic-feedback gloves, allow you to experience that resistance against haptic-feedback input devices.
The result? It allows students to complete hundreds of procedures prior to them ever entering an operating theater to increase their level of skill and confidence.
Adaptive Learning: AI Study Buddy
Examples: Quizlet AI & Osmosis
The life of a medical student entails gulping down an ocean of information, pathology, pharmacology, physiology and whatnot. The applications of AI-based adaptive learning such as Osmosis or Quizlet AI resemble a smart GPS of the brain. These tools, instead of randomly throwing questions per se at you, will follow up your performance by looking into the weak areas and also designing a personal study plan.
Have trouble with cardiac pharmacology? The app will quiz you on it till you have it down the pats and then proceed. It is as though you have a friend that knows when to press something and when to stop.
Global Medicine: Breaking Language Barriers
Medicine is global and language can act as an impediment. Such translation tools make it possible now, using artificial intelligence, to translate complex medical literature in real time into the native language of the medical student, without losing accuracy. To illustrate, an AI medical translator may feed an English research paper in cardiology, but produce an accurate translation of jargon into perfect Hindi or Spanish.
Not only does this expose students to the non-English speaking world, but it also bridges the way future doctors provide services to those of a different culture and one that is treated with greater knowledge and understanding.
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