"A Mystery in the E.R.? Ask Dr. Chatbot for a Diagnosis"
What’s Happening:
GPT-4 is a chatbot that is trained on a 600-billion-word dataset of medical literature and can generate text that mimics the reasoning of an experienced physician. Instructors at Beth Israel Deaconess medical school in Boston are using ChatGPT in training exercises to help teach students how to think like doctors.
Why It Matters:
“Doctors are terrible at teaching other doctors how we think,” said Dr. Adam Rodman, an internist, medical historian and organizer of the event at Beth Israel Deaconess. GPT-4 will create something remarkably similar to an illness script. Experienced doctors use illness scripts—pattern recognition—to figure out what is wrong: signs, symptoms and test results put together to tell a coherent story based on similar cases they know about or have seen themselves.
Instructors like Dr. Rodman hope that medical students use GPT-4 and other chatbots as something similar to a curbside consult—pulling a colleague aside to ask for an opinion, suggestion, and insight about a difficult case.
A study released last month in JAMA found that GPT-4 did better than most doctors on weekly diagnostic challenges published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Yes, but: AI is a new technology. There is an art to using the program, and there are pitfalls and shortcomings for now. “It’s a great thought partner, but it doesn’t replace deep mental expertise,”
Read more about this experiment at https://tinyurl.com/2rw8h54s