Health professions education
Generative AI for Health Professions Educators
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Curious, cautiously optimistic, or already experimenting with generative AI in your course? A safe space for health professions educators to prepare tomorrow’s health workforce for AI-augmented health systems.
Enrollment and lessons are on OpenLearning, UP Manila’s learning platform.
- Enrollment
- Open for enrollment
- Course type
- Short course
- Start date
- Start any time
- Duration
- About 6–8 weeks (4–5 hours a week)
- Fee
- ₱10,000
About this course
Generative AI is disrupting the way we teach and how students learn in health professions education. This course will equip you with practical strategies to ethically integrate AI in your teaching, while maintaining academic integrity and rigor.
A capstone project is required to complete the course.
Course content
Module 1: Introduction to Large Language Models in Medical Education
- Large Language Model Fundamentals and Architecture
- How Transformers Process Medical Language
- Training Data and Knowledge Cutoffs
- Medical Applications and Use Cases
Module 2: Mastering Prompt Engineering
- Principles of Effective Prompt Design
- Medical Education-specific Prompting Strategies
- Common Pitfalls and Refining Techniques
Module 3: Designing AI-Enhanced Learning Activities
- AI-enhanced Lecture Preparation
- Interactive Clinical Simulation
- AI Teaching Assistants for Q & A
- Collaborative Case-based Learning with AI
- AI-supported Clinical Reasoning Exercises
- Flipped Classroom with AI-generated Prework
Module 4: Crafting an AI Policy for your Course
- Institutional vs Course-level Policies
- Discipline-specific Considerations
- Enforcement and Violation Response Procedures
What you will learn
- Evaluate the potential applications and limitations of AI tools in medical education.
- Design effective prompts for AI tools to support teaching and assessment.
- Implement AI-enhanced learning activities while maintaining academic integrity.
- Develop strategies to guide students in appropriate AI use.
- Create customized AI policies and syllabus statements for your courses.
- Apply systematic quality assessment frameworks to AI-generated medical content.
Teacher
Iris Thiele Isip Tan, MD, MSc
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Enrollment for this course is on OpenLearning. Selecting the button opens the course there, where you sign up or log in, then enroll. See all the steps.
Fees, schedules and enrollment status as of 30 September 2026.
