ChatGPT Helping Advance Training for Medical Students: A Study on Self-Directed Learning Enhancement (CHAT-MS)

Wang Shalong

Status: Completed

Conditions: Artificial Intelligence; Self-Directed Learning; Medical Education

Treatments: Other: custom GPT supported self-directed learning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06276049

DGETRRP2023-54

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effect of LearnGuide, a custom GPT developed with ChatGPT for supporting self-directed learning (SDL) in medical students. The main questions it aims to answer are:

How does LearnGuide influence SDL skills among medical students? Can LearnGuide improve critical thinking and learning flow as measured by Cornell Critical Thinking Test (CCTT) Level Z score and Global Flow Score (GFS)?

Participants will:

Undergo a two-hour introduction to LearnGuide. Engage in 12 weeks of SDL task-based training with LearnGuide's support.

If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare the group utilizing LearnGuide for SDL and the group without this tool to see if there is a significant difference in SDL skills, critical thinking, and learning flow experiences.

Enrollment: 103 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying at the Second Xiangya Hospital
• with access to ChatGPT

Exclusion criteria

• utilization of large language models for learning assistance more than once weekly for a period exceeding 2 months.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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103 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Engage in 12 weeks of SDL task-based training with LearnGuide\'s support.

Treatment:

Other: custom GPT supported self-directed learning

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

the control group engaged in SDL task-based training without the support of LearnGuide or any similar artificial intelligence (AI) assistance.