Artificial Intelligence & Anatomy
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Do you trust AI?
Or at this point, do you think that using Artificial Intelligence takes away from your critical thinking skills?
Is AI accurate every time? Or does what AI generates require fact-checking?
There are so many questions about AI and what role it will play in our lives—including at school, of course, too. But there’s no question that AI is moving into every aspect of our lives. If you’re online and see a recommendation to buy something, it’s an advertisement from an algorithm that has been watching your preferences and interests online. That’s AI. It’s everywhere.
Well, we asked AI how it would help anatomy education in the future and it came back (no surprise) with a lot of claims about its capability.
“AI can revolutionize anatomy education by offering personalized learning, real-time feedback, virtual dissections, and AI-driven assessment tools, potentially enhancing understanding and reducing reliance on cadavers,” the ‘intelligence’ wrote back in seconds.
(Apparently AI knows itself pretty well. Never not confident.)
Well, we highly recommend this very thoughtful analysis by professors at the Department of Human & Clinical Anatomy, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. It’s a couple of years old, but not much has changed. (And we’re 99 percent sure it was written by human beings using their own brain power.)
The writers imagine “a novel scenario where a completely automated plant or a facility affiliated to the department of Anatomy could perform all of the … tasks of procuring, preparing, embalming, dissecting, plastination and mounting anatomical specimens in a single organized facility.” (This would be a non-interpretive type of application of AI.) “This application of AI in the anatomical sciences, where cadaveric dissection still remains a mainstay of Anatomy and hence medical education, would greatly reduce the heavy labor-intensive load of Anatomy departments globally,” the writers conclude.
AI could also act as a teaching assistant, they assert, “capable of analyzing body regions and segments with great accuracy and able to reproduce them for structured Anatomy demonstrations, especially for complex areas.”
And “interactive teaching programs such as Anatomy Chatbots” could provide “immediate formative assessment tools or clinical application quizzes could be modified and programmed into the deep learning AI framework to assess the extent of deeper and more logical learning and application of this knowledge in a clinical setting among students.”
In general, the writers state, “the rise of AI, machine learning, virtual reality and robotics seems to be indispensable for the transformative change in anatomical education (and) these novel methods of Anatomy education are leading to profound changes in healthcare practice.”
The analysis is fairly long and very detailed. We recommend it! As you probably know, here at Anatomy in Clay® Learning System, we are in favor of all methods of learning human anatomy but also firmly believe that tactile learning has something extra special going for it.
No matter all the advances in AI, the hands-on method is powerful.
And can never be replaced.
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