Empowering tomorrow's public health researchers and clinicians to develop digital health interventions using chatbots, virtual reality, and other AI technologies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based digital health interventions incorporating technologies like chatbots and augmented/virtual reality are reshaping the healthcare delivery landscape. The rollout of these technologies warrants updated graduate curricula to train future healthcare professionals. In response, the authors incorporated additional topics relevant to digital health intervention development into a graduate-level digital health communication course and evaluated student feedback.

Methods

The authors developed four lectures on two-/one-way digital health messaging strategies, AI/large language models, chatbots, and augmented/virtual reality, and a chatbot development tutorial as a lab. They evaluated students' perceptions of the course and the benefits of

SUBMITTER: Comulada WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12279801 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature