Large Language Models in Academic Work and Medical Education
A Crash Course in genAI Chatbots
Ivana Mihalek
Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka, Department of Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology, Rijeka, Croatia
ivana.mihalek@uniri.hr
A Crash Course in genAI Chatbots
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AI-powered chatbots are the friendly face of LLMs
Exercise 1: Privacy Settings in Chatbot Homepages
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Privacy in the chatbot world
ChatGPT example – privacy statement, private chat
when logged in
Privacy in the chatbot world
ChatGPT example – privacy statement, private chat
when logged in
Privacy in the chatbot world
ChatGPT example – privacy statement, private chat
Privacy in the chatbot world
when logged in
Privacy in the chatbot world
when logged in
Privacy in the chatbot world
Privacy in the chatbot world
Privacy in the chatbot world
Privacy in the chatbot world
Privacy in the chatbot world
How do I know all that stuff?
Privacy in the chatbot world
Exercise: make your conversation private in one of other major chatbot accounts
https://www.kimi.com/
Exercise 2: (A Reliable) Literature Search
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Literature Search
“Pomozi mi napisati query za PubMed trazilicu. Zelim pronaci znanstvene radove u zadnjih deset godina s Američkih sveučilišta koji opisuju varijante u K. pneumoniae bakteriji koje doprinose virulentnosti ili patogenosti te vrste”
Exercise: make chatbot write a Pubmed query
(use this, or make up your own query)
“Help me write a PubMed query. I want to find papers by US academic authors, published within the last 10 years and describing K. pneumoniae variants contributing to the virulence or pathogenicity of that species.”
New kid on the block
Gemini
Exercise 3: Summarizing Scientific Papers
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Summarizing and Reviewing Scientific Papers
“Summarize the key findings and clinical relevance of this abstract in 4 sentences. Identify study design, population, main outcome, and limitations”
“list three methodological weaknesses in this study that could influence clinical decision-making”
Exercise: Find anything the model glossed over, oversimplified, or invented.
Claude Sonnet, Le Chat
Summarizing and Reviewing Scientific Papers
Claude Sonnet, Le Chat
Be aware also: https://notebooklm.google.com/
Exercise 4: Planning Administrative Tasks
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Planning and Administrative Tasks in Medical Education
Deep Seek
(you may want to use a text editor for writing prompts like this;
Note: a chatbot builds up on the previous conversation)
“I am a practicing ophthalmologist, an MD PhD, and an experienced teacher.
Tell me about the current trends in topics covered and methodologies used in teaching neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the eye, in the US and Great Britain universities.”
Planning and Administrative Tasks in Medical Education
Deep Seek
“I want to design a course entitled "Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of the Eye". The lecture part should consist of 10 lectures, aimed at third-year students of pre-clinical medicine. Please suggest the syllabus, There should be 10 lectures.
1) Explain the goal of the course in 5 sentences or less.
2) What should be the learning outcomes for the students of this course? Please break down into (A) cognitive, (B)affective, and (C) psychomotor domains, as applicable. Present the breakdown components as enumerated list (1, 2, 3, etc).
3) Specify the brief content of each lecture
4) Specify the prerequisites and suggest a textbook
”
Planning and Administrative Tasks in Medical Education
Deep Seek
“Help me create teaching plan for the second lecture, also referred to as the second teaching unit
The teaching unit should last 50 minutes, which should include 5 minutes for the review of the relevant facts from the previous units, and 5 minutes for the anonymous quiz at the end
Please write or create the following:
1. the aim of the teaching unit
2. the learning outcomes for the teaching unit
3. the learning outcomes of the class that are related to the learning outcomes for the teaching unit, by domain (cognitive, affective, psychomotor); should be numbered, and grouped as in the learning outcomes for the class
4. the timeline for the unit, presented as a table that includes the following columns:
Duration, teacher activities, student activities, materials and tools.
5. student evaluation methods as a table with columns
"Evaluation component", "evaluation type", "learning outcomes relates to", "the implementation and weight"
the "learning outcome relates to" should be listed as A1, A2, B1, as appropriate to connect to the learning outcomes of the unit; the evaluation type should be formative or summative; ”
Planning and Administrative Tasks in Medical Education
The anatomy of a prompt:
Deep Seek
“I am a practicing ophthalmologist ...
“I want to design a course … aimed at third-year students of pre-clinical medicine … there should be 10 lectures ...
“Help me create teaching plan for the second lecture ….
...
5. student evaluation methods as a table with columns
"Evaluation component", "evaluation type", "learning outcomes relates to", "the implementation and weight"
the "learning outcome relates to" should be listed as A1, A2, B1, as appropriate to connect to the learning outcomes of the unit; the evaluation type should be formative or summative; ”
establish the background
define the target audience for your request
give details, with the examples of what you are trying to achieve
Planning and Administrative Tasks in Medical Education
Deep Seek
Here is what DeepSeek comes up with
Exercise: create your own syllabus, using other chatbot(s) prompts are reusable!
Exercise 5: Socratic Learning
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LLMs from a Learner’s Perspective – LLMs as a Socratic Learning Tool
ChatGPT, Gemini
That's it.
See you around.
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