José Peralta , Ignacio Gallegos and Claudia Arancibia from Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Programs/courses
Integrative Cases II Course (Medicine)
How have you used Clinical Mind AI in your teaching or research?
We implemented Clinical Mind AI in the "Casos Integradores II" (Integrative Cases II) course in the second year of medical school at the University of Chile School of Medicine. This mandatory course aims to train students in clinical diagnostic reasoning by exposing them to clinical cases and teaching them the principles of diagnostic testing (pre- and post-test probabilities, likelihood ratios, etc.). This is the first year that simulated cases are being used instead of clinical histories or pre-written scripts and lists of findings. The course consisted of five modules, each one covering several clinical cases that gradually introduced and reinforced the course content, from gathering the clinical history and reflecting on its importance to weighing up physical examination findings and proposing complete diagnostic hypotheses. Each of the 243 students in this course completed the cases individually, obtaining the patients’ medical histories, proposing physical examination maneuvers to perform, and answering activities.
What impact or benefits have you observed for your students or teaching practice?
Students were able to be exposed to many more cases than usual, working on them individually, unlike in previous years.
These activities benefited students in that they allowed them to experience conditions closer to real practice from which to exercise clinical reasoning.
Preliminarily, it seems to us that the students managed to acquire basic notions of clinical reasoning and evidence-based healthcare and apply them, which will put them in a good starting point for further learning in subsequent courses.
Anything else you’d like to share about your experience?
In addition to the benefits for students, this platform proved to be very flexible in its pedagogical applications, allowing us, the teachers in charge of the course, to let our imaginations run wild in creating activities. It is constantly changing and there is room for many adaptations.
