REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE EDUCACIÓN MÉDICA, cilt.4, sa.3, ss.98-103, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The significant challenge faced by medical schools is the effortful
process of writing a high quantity of high-quality case-based
multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to assess the higher order skills of
medical students. The demand for a high volume of MCQs in education has
led to the development of Automatic Item Generation (AIG), specifically
template-based AIG, which involves creating cognitive and item models by
subject matter experts to generate hundreds of MCQs at once using
software. It demonstrated significant success in various languages and
even being incorporated into national medical licensure exams. However,
this method still heavily depends on the efforts of subject matter
experts. This paper introduces a detailed ChatGPT prompt for quickly
generating case-based MCQs and provides important research questions for
future exploration into ChatGPT's potential in generating items,
signaling the beginning of the artificial intelligence era in medical
education, encouraging health professions education researchers to delve
deeper into its potential.