Beyond Flashcards: Designing an Intelligent Assistant for USMLE Mastery and Virtual Tutoring in Medical Education (A Study on Harnessing Chatbot Technology for Personalized Step 1 Prep)

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10540v1
• Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:20:27 GMT
• Title: Beyond Flashcards: Designing an Intelligent Assistant for USMLE Mastery and Virtual Tutoring in Medical Education (A Study on Harnessing Chatbot Technology for Personalized Step 1 Prep)
• Authors: Ritwik Raj Saxena,
• Abstract summary: I propose an intelligent AI companion which will fill this gap by providing on-the-fly solutions to students' questions. I have harnessed Generative AI for dynamic, accurate, human-like responses and for knowledge retention and application. I have been able to create a quality assistant capable of producing ad-libitum responses best suited to the user's needs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Traditional medical basic sciences educational approaches follow a one-size-fits-all model, neglecting the diverse learning styles of individual students. I propose an intelligent AI companion which will fill this gap by providing on-the-fly solutions to students' questions in the context of not only USMLE Step 1 but also other similar examinations in other countries, inter alia, PLAB Part 1 in United Kingdom, and NEET (PG) and FMGE in India. I have harnessed Generative AI for dynamic, accurate, human-like responses and for knowledge retention and application. Users were encouraged to employ prompt engineering, in particular, in-context learning, for response optimization and enhancing the model's precision in understanding the intent of the user through the way the query is framed. The implementation of RAG has enhanced the chatbot's ability to combine pre-existing medical knowledge with generative capabilities for efficient and contextually relevant support. Mistral was employed using Python to perform the needed functions. The digital conversational agent was implemented and achieved a score of 0.5985 on a reference-based metric similar to BLEU and ROUGE scores. My approach addresses a critical gap in traditional medical basic sciences education by introducing an intelligent AI companion which specializes in helping medical aspirants with planning and information retention for USMLE Step 1 and other similar exams. Considering the stress that medical aspirants face in studying for the exam and in obtaining spontaneous answers to medical basic sciences queries, especially whose answers are challenging to obtain by searching online, and obviating a student's need to search bulky medical texts or lengthy indices or appendices, I have been able to create a quality assistant capable of producing ad-libitum responses best suited to the user's needs.

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