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by hirenj 491 days ago
This is a great resource, thanks. We (myself, a bioinformatician, and my co-cordinators, clinicians) are currently designing a course to hopefully arm medical students with the required basic knowledge they need to navigate the changing world of medicine in light of the ML and LLM advances. Our goal is to not only demystify medical ML, but also give them a sense of the possibilities with these technologies, and maybe illustrate pathways for adoption, in the safest way possible.

Already in the process of putting this course together, it is scary how much stuff is being tried out right now, and is being treated like a magic box with correct answers.
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sabas123 491 days ago
> currently designing a course to hopefully arm medical students with the required basic knowledge they need to navigate the changing world of medicine in light of the ML and LLM advances

Could you share what you think would be some key basic points what they should learn? Personally I see this landscape changing so insanely much that I don't even know what to prepare for.

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hirenj 490 days ago
Absolutely agree that this is a fast-moving area, so we're not aiming to teach them specific details for anything. Instead, our goals are to demystify the ML and AI approaches, so that the students understand that rather than being oracles, these technologies are the result of a process.

We will explain the data landscape in medicine - what is available, good, bad and potentially useful, and then spend a lot of time going through examples of what people are doing right now, and what their experiences are. This includes things like ethics and data protection of patients.

Hopefully that's enough for them to approach new technologies as they are presented to them, knowing enough to ask about how it was put together. In an ideal world, we will inspire the students to think about engaging with these developments and be part of the solution in making it safe and effective.

This is the first time we're going to try running this course, so we'll find out very quickly if this is useful for students or not.

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