Challenge, integration, and change: ChatGPT and future anatomical education

ABSTRACT

With the vigorous development of ChatGPT and its application in the field of education, a new era of the collaborative development of human and artificial intelligence and the symbiosis of education has come. Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into medical education has the potential to revolutionize it. Large language models, such as ChatGPT, can be used as virtual teaching aids to provide students with individualized and immediate medical knowledge, and conduct interactive simulation learning and detection. In this paper, we discuss the application of ChatGPT in anatomy teaching and its various application levels based on our own teaching experiences, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ChatGPT in anatomy teaching. ChatGPT increases student engagement and strengthens students’ ability to learn independently. At the same time, ChatGPT faces many challenges and limitations in medical education. Medical educators must keep pace with the rapid changes in technology, taking into account ChatGPT’s impact on curriculum design, assessment strategies and teaching methods. Discussing the application of ChatGPT in medical education, especially anatomy teaching, is helpful to the effective integration and application of artificial intelligence tools in medical education.

KEYWORDS:

• ChatGPT
• artificial intelligence
• anatomy
• medical education
• educational reform

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Author contributions

L.L. conceptualized the study, wrote the manuscript and edited the manuscript.

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All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper.

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Funding

Fujian Province undergraduate education teaching research project [Grant FBJY20230241 to L.L.]