Use Case #1 (Fall 2024)

Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences Behavioral Health Program Associate Director of Clinical Training, Jonathan Waldo, LMHC

Students in the class used the AI chatbot to ask questions about the subject matter, and increase their AI literacy by guiding them to think about AI’s ethical implications on mental health education.

Student quote:
“This AI project was very fascinating to me and I felt I learned a lot about the use of AI within the mental health field.”

Instructor quote:
“I think a shift from specific output (in many cases) toward an effort to develop skills and capacities (despite those targets being more difficult to objectively assess), addresses most concerns about AI in education. If we step away from a focus on product/output as educators, and reassess why we are asking for that product – what are the skills, capacities, and knowledge bases we intend to develop with the students – we can shift to embracing AI as a tool in the educational process, rather than an obstacle. An epistemological perspective, and not an easy shift, to say the least.”

Use Case #2: (Fall 2024)

Henry Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Asst. Dean, Clinical Affairs and Associate Clinical Professor, Afsheen Lakhani, DMD

In this use case, the tool was customized as ‘Tooth Talks’ and used by students transitioning from pre-clinic work to clinical settings, to save time on questions repeatedly asked of clinical faculty. Students retrieve answers faster with the tool and save time for faculty who don’t need to be consulted for many questions.

Student feedback:

“I used Tooth Talks lately and was amazed to see the software has answers to almost all clinic-related questions.”

“It is a very useful tool, and we believe we will benefit from it.”

Faculty feedback:

“Tooth Talks has been a valuable learning tool for students, providing answers to most clinic-related questions. However, getting accurate information from video lectures/sessions would be important. Also, ability to incorporate clinical scenarios, patient provider communication type videos or scenarios to teach students would enhance the benefit of this tool.”

As a follow up from EdTech: we plan to help this group add transcripts from video as a source for the tool and the vendor now has speech recognition capabilities recently release and has video recognition

Use Case #3 (Spring 2025)

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Associate Dean for Digital Learning and Innovation, Program Director for Post-professional OTD & Clinical Professor Karen Jacobs, OT, EdD

This use case is a great example of how quickly an instructor can link the tool to their course and start using it. Karen met with an Educational Technologist to guide her through linking and quick setup one day and introduced it to her students, who began interacting with the tool for Q&A the very next day.    31 of 42 students asked the AI Tutor questions!

Example: Multiple students asked the chatbot the question “What is entrepreneurship?” and based on instructor content linked to the chatbot from the course, the following answer was provided.

“Entrepreneurship is defined as the process where a person organizes, operates, and assumes the risk of a business venture.¹ Entrepreneurs are individuals who recognize opportunities and are willing to take the necessary risks to develop those opportunities.² They may or may not be innovators, but they are always experimenters.”

**Superscript in response cites source document provided by the course instructor**