Enhancing medical education with chatbots: a randomized controlled trial on standardized patients for colorectal cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Combination of Standardized Patient (SP) and Case Based Learning (CBL) is a common method in medical education, but traditional SP (TSP) may not be conducive to students' mastery of basic medical knowledge and the cultivation of clinical thinking. Therefore, it is necessary to innovate SP to optimize SP combined with CBL teaching method.

Objective

This study aims to explore the effectiveness of a chatbot utilizing standardized patients based on CBL (CSP-CBL) for colorectal cancer education.

Methods

61 medical students who have studied the theoretical knowledge of colorectal cancer were selected as the study objects and randomly divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group used CSP-CBL, and the control group used traditional SP

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11662846 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature