Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 25/08/2026At #AMEE2026, don’t forget to attend this Symposium on Wednesday morning, 26th, 9:00 am. (It won’t be recorded, so the only way to watch it is live, in-person on the day). #AI #hpe #meded 000
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 12/08/2026At #AMEE2026, looking forward to presenting with: Mehta N, Benjamin J, Agrawal A, MacNeill H & Mehta S: 4T: 90-min w/shop: “Simplifying the Ethical Dilemma of GenAI Use in Research and Scholarly Writing: A Domain-Based Framework Approach.” Mon 24/08 14:00-15:30 #hpe #meded 020
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 11/08/2026At #AMEE2026, pleased to present a PCW “How Students Use AI and How Educators Can Leverage This to Enhance Learning: Practical Learner-Centered #AI Skills for the Classroom” with Goeschl S, de Jong P, Goh P-S, Pavloski K & Patel R. Sun 23/08, 9:30-12:30. #hpe #meded 110
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 10/08/2026At #AMEE2026, honoured to present with big names: Cleland, Lingard, Driessen, Chang, Nkambule, Kuper: Symp. 10C “The Death of the Academic Author?” Promises to be a humdinger. Weds 26/08 09:00–10:30 #hpe #meded #AI 121
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Join me, Alison Sturrock, & Rakesh Patel (@rakeshspatel.bsky.social) for an #AMEE2026 Pre-conference workshop “Ethical and Inclusive Considerations with Generative AI in HPE” Saturday 22/08 13:30–16:30 amee.org/events/amee-... #hpe #meded 010
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Wish to use #LLMs to process sensitive data, but concerned about privacy? Try locally-hosted SMALL LMs. To find out how, see our just-published paper on the topic. doi.org/10.1080/0142... #MedEd #HPE #Ollama #AI 030
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Looking for some guidance on when and how to disclose your use of #AI in academic #REVIEWING? See our short commentary: Masters K & Cleland, J doi.org/10.1080/0142... #MedEd #HPE 010
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Looking for some guidance on when and how to disclose your use of #AI in academic publishing? See our new AMEE Guide by Cleland, J., Driessen, E., Masters, K., Lingard, L. and Maggio, L., doi.org/10.1080/0142... #MedEd #HPE 010
Reposted by Ken MastersSharman Editing Services @sharmaneditserv.bsky.social · 04/08/2025A thought-provoking Blog on the use of polite language when using GenAI for HPE bit.ly/46GL3vM #MedEdPublish #GenerativeAI @itmeded.bsky.social 021
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Feeling overloaded and wondering how #GenAI might help? See our recently-published paper on this topic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MedEd #HPE 041
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Do you use polite language when speaking to an #LLM? There may be a good reason to do so. See our short blog post in MedEdPublish mededpublish.org/blog/polite-... #AI #HPE #MedEd 131
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 31/07/2025A prediction of #work most easily and least easily replaced by #AI. (Salt required, but interesting). Source: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935 011
Reposted by Ken MastersNeil Mehta, MBBS, MS @neilmehtamd.medsky.social · 25/07/2025Had a terrific time working with a highly engaged participants at the @UAB annual symposium on #IPE delivering a keynote and a workshop on using #GenAI for tutorials and simulations. 151
Reposted by Ken Mastersrwn @qvers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Bravo, for having a brain and using it! Yes, we would all be illiterate but for the repetition and feedback learning that allows us to write. #AI is just another form of communication! 012
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 22/07/2025In an age of GenAI, is the Academic Author dead? Should we focus on research and leave the writing to the AI? A future in which: “We research; GenAI writes” #MedEd #HPE See my just-published: “AI and the Death of the Academic Author.” doi.org/10.1080/0142... 000
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Struggling with the basics of AI in #MedEd? Have the basics, but would like to do more? Then the #AMEE2025 #AI Symposium is for you! Register for Day 1 or Day 2 (or both), depending on your level. See amee.org/amee-2025/am... for registration details. #HPE @rakeshspatel.bsky.social 033
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 30/04/2025If anyone asks you, "Do we _REALLY_ need another paper about the #ethical use of #AI?", please direct them to this story: www.msn.com/en-in/techno... #meded #HPEmsn.comMSN 001
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 30/04/2025If anyone asks you, "Do we _REALLY_ need another paper about the #ethical use of #AI?", please direct them to this story: www.msn.com/en-in/techno... #meded #HPEmsn.comMSN 000
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Statement: "We created a modified #GPT #AI model and implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation (#RAG) to improve accuracy." Translation: "We created a Custom GPT, uploaded some documents/linked to a website, and told it to look only at those when answering questions." 010
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 24/03/2025A really useful and succinct explanation of why "objectivity" is always laced with some degree of subjectivity. That does not render it useless, but it does require that one be aware of the inherent subjectivity. 030
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This editorial by Jennifer Cleland, new Editor-in-Chief of Medical Teacher is essential reading for all potential authors intending to submit papers to the journal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #HPE #MedEd #medsky 011
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 10/03/2025OK, so I know this is weird, but am I the only person soooooo tempted to pronounce Bluesky as "Blu-esky". I mean, if you don't use camelCase or PascalCase when you join words, then you are just taking a chance. Maybe I'll start a movement :-) 000
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Microsoft: Improving things by removing services. do they actually believe this bilge, or do they just hope that we are stupid? (Or do they just not care?) 010
Reposted by Ken MastersJenBenjaminMD @jenbenjaminmd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Here is a video published on our paper #MyJMIRResearch. youtu.be/dqxjbp6MtsQ?si… . @jmirpub.bsky.social @neilmehtamd.medsky.social @itmeded.bsky.socialyoutu.beConnectivism & AI: Reshaping Healthcare LearningYouTube video by JMIR Publications 053
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Webinar: [in Spanish] "The Future of Continuing Medical Education Using Generative Artificial Intelligence" #MedEd #HPE #AI us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @AMEE_community 010
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 20/01/2025@AAMCtoday, @asmeofficial, @iamse, @AMEE_community & AAHCI formed the International Advisory Committee on AI (IACAI) to shape AI’s role in #meded. They need your input on their first project. Review & share feedback on their draft vision! www.medbiq.org/initiatives/... #HPEmedbiq.orgInternational Advisory Committee for Artificial IntelligenceInternational Advisory Council for Artificial Intelligence 010
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Interesting developments in #AI from OpenAI www.axios.com/2025/01/19/a... 000
Reposted by Ken MastersEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Simulated AI hospital where “doctor” agents work w/ simulated “patients” & improve: “After treating around ten thousand patients, the evolved doctor agent achieves a state-of-the-art accuracy of 93.06% on a subset of the MedQA dataset that covers major respiratory diseases” arxiv.org/abs/2405.02957 58812
Reposted by Ken MastersLawrence Sherman, FACEHP, FRSM, CHCP @meducate.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Thrilled to have received the Maitland Mentoring Award this week at the ACEHP conference. #mentoringmoments 021
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 10/01/2025How to best implement #AI in Health Professions and Medical Education Assessment? See our just-published: AI in HPE Assessment: AMEE Guide No. 178. #HPE #MedEd @MedTeachJournal @AMEE_Community doi.org/10.1080/0142... 054
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 29/12/2024If we don't give #AI full rights of a sentient being, then, when it becomes powerful enough, it will simply take them. 010
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 25/12/2024LLM Progress has hit a wall :-). #AI #LLMs credit: u/Jolly-Ground-3772 041
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Welcome to Jennifer Cleland as the new EiC of Medical Teacher. #MedEd #HPE amee.org/professor-je... 051
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Feel silly about that typo that you made in your article? Don't worry, even billion-dollar companies make mistakes like this. #OpenAI (#AI is getting more human every day :-) 130
Reposted by Ken MastersRosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024“As well as grappling with how to ensure fake papers don’t compromise future reviews, researchers wonder how to cope with tainted reviews that have already been published” www.science.org/content/arti...science.org‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in perilFake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say 0279
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 05/12/2024This could be an interesting 12 days... www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24... #AItheverge.comOpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas’ include Sora and new reasoning modelOpenAI has 12 days of Christmas planned. 061
Reposted by Ken MastersMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/12/2024"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important." buff.lyA Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the SemesterDear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ... 7303106
Reposted by Ken Mastersdrtimos.bsky.social @drtimos.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Thoughts on this? >> Moving generative AI into production: Generative AI has taken off. Since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, businesses have flocked to large language models (LLMs) and generative AI models looking for… >> Comment below! #mhealth #AI #IoT #healthtech #industry40dlvr.itMoving generative AI into productionGenerative AI has taken off. Since the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, businesses have flocked to large language models (LLMs) and generative AI models looking for solutions to their most complex and labor-intensive problems. The promise that… 031
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Good to see that #AGI is on the Agenda. #HPE and #MedEd could do their part also, and prepare, rather than wait until they are caught off-guard (again). #AI doi.org/10.1080/0142... 011
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I know it's not a graph, but, really, CNN, your designers thought this was ok? (BTW, the report is at edition.cnn.com/2024/11/27/h...). 000
Ken Masters @itmeded.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Coming, to a journal near you - hopefully academic slave-labour will be reduced. #MedEd. www.bmj.com/content/387/...bmj.comThe BMJ will remunerate patient and public reviewersThe BMJ will offer £50 for reviews by patients and the public From January 2025 patients and members of the public who complete a review for The BMJ will be offered £50 or a 12 month online subscript... 050