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Prompting is a teachable skill
Three new studies suggest that how learners and examiners talk to AI matters as much as which model they use, and that it can be taught.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Introducing SimPatient: AI-Powered Virtual Patients for Healthcare Training
SimPatient combines lifelike avatars, a proprietary clinical language model, and a diversity engine to scale communication training worldwide.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
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The feedback nobody has time to give
Early evidence on AI feedback is promising and thin, and in every study the learners still wanted a human in the loop.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Agreement is not validity
AI can now match lecturers' marks on exams, records and research coding, but this tells us far less than the headline numbers suggest.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Better than nothing, or better than us?
Adoption of generative AI in medical education has outrun the evidence, the competencies and the institutional rules, with a new meta-analysis unable to…
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
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AI-Generated Medical Imagery and Representation: Do We All Get to be Seen?
A student’s take on our study testing whether AI image generators fairly represent skin tones in dermatology.
 • Ayla
Conference Report: AMEE goes big on AI in Barcelona
My reflection on my first AMEE conference, where AI research is everywhere, but widespread adoption still lags
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Can Artificial Intelligence Write Exam Questions?
Our recent study demonstrates the promise and pitfalls of letting large language models draft SBAs
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

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Introducing SimPatient: AI-Powered Virtual Patients for Healthcare Training
SimPatient combines lifelike avatars, a proprietary clinical language model, and a diversity engine to scale communication training worldwide.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Introducing MCQ Maker: an evidence-based genAI tool to create SBAs
MCQ Maker, now running OpenAI GPT-5, can boost your question banks while guaranteeing exam security
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
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I'm a medical educator. I read the literature so you don't have to, then write one short letter every Monday. For faculty, residents, curriculum leads, and anyone in higher ed who teaches.
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