Making an AI app that generates MCQ's from medical school lectures.

[turtleai]

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Hello,

I am making an AI tool that generates multiple-choice questions from medical school lectures. I trained it using thousands of questions and the corresponding medical school lectures. This would be useful for school exams (not for board prep).

The app also creates a summary of the lecture. It includes jokes and mnemonics with every question explanation.

I am wondering if anyone would want to use it (for free) and offer feedback? I am working to refine the AI model.

You simple upload your lecture, and wait a few minutes (up to 5 minutes). It will generate a summary and 15 questions.

I am hoping to create an app that generates MCQ's that are similar to the questions you see on the school exam.

About me: I plan to start DO school this Fall, so I plan to use it as well. I have read that answering questions (active recall) is the best way to learn. However, their are no apps that specifically generate questions for medical school, based on a particular lecture. So I hope this will be useful!

Thank you so much!

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[NotAProgDirector]

You may run into legal / copyright issues. I doubt medical schools would be happy with you feeding their lectures to your AI app. If it's for personal use only (i.e. you're not sorting anything) it might be OK.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Your professor would like a cut. It's their lectures. It would make things easier for them to write your exams. 🙂

You should also make sure you get your professor's permission to be recorded. Ethically, you should also notify your classmates if you record the lecture for development purposes. You might have to go through an IRB.

 

[turtleai]

Thank you @NotAProgDirector and @Mr.Smile12 . I am not even sure if this will be useful haha. But yes, I will look into that. I just thought of this and wanted to know what people in the field think.

Also, I made a feature where the user types in their reasoning for a question, and the AI analyzes it and explains what is wrong and what is right. So that way, the student can get feedback on what they don't know. Do you think this will be useful? I believe this would be unique. Thank you so much!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you @NotAProgDirector and @Mr.Smile12 . I am not even sure if this will be useful haha. But yes, I will look into that. I just thought of this and wanted to know what people in the field think.

Also, I made a feature where the user types in their reasoning for a question, and the AI analyzes it and explains what is wrong and what is right. So that way, the student can get feedback on what they don't know. Do you think this will be useful? I believe this would be unique. Thank you so much!

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[turtleai]

I wouldn't mind testing that!

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Thank you so much for this information. Their are lots of similar tools online. However, the main issue I saw was the quality of the questions. Some people have said they are not useful.

So that is why I wanted to see if mine was the same difficulty for medical school. If you don't mind me asking, would you mind testing my app, as you teach medical students? Thank you so much once again!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Thank you so much for this information. Their are lots of similar tools online. However, the main issue I saw was the quality of the questions. Some people have said they are not useful.

So that is why I wanted to see if mine was the same difficulty for medical school. If you don't mind me asking, would you mind testing my app, as you teach medical students? Thank you so much once again!

I'm honored, but I'm definitely not the right person. 🙂

Usual protocol will likely require some NDA and a formal agreement with professors. You must legally protect yourself and the professors you may collaborate with. You might need other legal documents and signoffs regarding the origin of your data/model.

I do have an IRB-approved survey on the use of AI in medical schools (seeking students, faculty, administrators). If you are interested, I have the link: Introduction . I'm hoping the results confirm the interest in similar AI tools for studying and test prep.

 

[turtleai]

I'm honored, but I'm definitely not the right person. 🙂

Usual protocol will likely require some NDA and a formal agreement with professors. You must legally protect yourself and the professors you may collaborate with. You might need other legal documents and signoffs regarding the origin of your data/model.

I do have an IRB-approved survey on the use of AI in medical schools (seeking students, faculty, administrators). If you are interested, I have the link: Introduction . I'm hoping the results confirm the interest in similar AI tools for studying and test prep.

Oh thank you so much for that information. I just filled out your survey, and submitted it.

I use mostly the existing API calls actually, I did train them to be more exact and I also process the file differently, which makes a difference in output.

I was using the existing quiz generators online. However, the answer choices make it very easy to know which answer is right/wrong, without even reading the stem. So that is why most of those tools are useless for medical students, as they don't test anything because of the answer choices.

My target audience would be students who are struggling. I assume that students who are doing well would not change their study habits.

So my focus was on creating the answer choices to be very difficult, and to make the concepts easy to understand and remember. Thank you once again for your feedback!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

My target audience would be students who are struggling. I assume that students who are doing well would not change their study habits.

So my focus was on creating the answer choices to be very difficult, and to make the concepts easy to understand and remember. Thank you once again for your feedback!

That's good to know. There is a skill on creating multiple choice questions properly. I agree that most quiz generators are good for testing recall, but not so good for higher-order thinking, which is what most professional exams require. Then again, writing good MCQs can be learned, and thus decoding MCQ's is simple. It's just a question of having an understanding of plausible wrong answers.

 

[turtleai]

That's good to know. There is a skill on creating multiple choice questions properly. I agree that most quiz generators are good for testing recall, but not so good for higher-order thinking, which is what most professional exams require. Then again, writing good MCQs can be learned, and thus decoding MCQ's is simple. It's just a question of having an understanding of plausible wrong answers.

Thank you for this video. The hard part is getting the AI model to write such questions.

Here are some questions my model produced:

If you don't mind me asking, what do you think of these questions? Are they good? They were generated from a lecture I uploaded.

Thank you so much!

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Exactly... AI doesn't have the knowledge of the thinking that leads to an incorrect answer/prompt. 🙂

Granted, I cannot comment because I don't have the knowledge either. 🙂

 

[turtleai]

Exactly... AI doesn't have the knowledge of the thinking that leads to an incorrect answer/prompt. 🙂

Granted, I cannot comment because I don't have the knowledge either. 🙂

I tried to get it to think about reasonable possibilities, and then use those to think about possible choices.

If you don't mind me asking, do you think this would be useful if it generates questions similar to those found on school exams? I have read that a number of students struggle in medical school, and many even fail out. Would this be useful to those students?

Also, here is an example of the explanation. It is supposed to make it easy to learn and have things to help you remember. Thank you so much!