Challenger Medical Education Blog

April 25, 2024 Customer Newsletter

Written by Challenger Corporation | Apr 25, 2024 7:06:04 PM

  • Healthcare Leads Employment Gains
  • Fulfill State CME and DEA Requirements
  • The Once Profitable 23andMe Fails
  • AI Can Be a Tool, a Crutch, or a Cheat in Learning

Healthcare Leads Employment Gains

The March job report shows healthcare employment leading in job creation, some good news. Just ahead of growth in new government employees (we’re not sure that’s good). Nursing and residential care up 17,000, and 55,000 in ambulatory and hospital care. On average, healthcare is growing at 60,000 jobs per month.

Healthcare Grows 72K New Jobs in March - HealthLeaders Media

Fulfill State CME & DEA Requirements For as Little as $19

Med-Challenger now offers our State Required CME course on the new Med-Challenger FUSE! That means didactic content, quizzes, and illustrations integrated throughout. Includes 50 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM and ANCC Contact Hours covering many of the topics required by various states.

Try Med-Challenger State Required CME for Free Before You Buy

23andMe - the Genetic Testing / Telehealth Company - Fails

The current discussion is the CEO, Anne Wojcicki, effectively taking the company over and buying it out of bankruptcy, giving her direct ownership of the 14m customer records - personal & genetic information. They’ve already lost a hacked 7m records to the dark corners of the internet - which they blamed on the customers for “bad password hygiene”. Genetic testing isn’t going away, but people will probably be asking for much better user agreements.

23andMe’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable Fate | Telehealth and Telecare Aware

AI, Writing, and Learning

The Feynman method of learning says that you can’t really know a topic until you can teach it to a child. The process of writing in education is similar to that - you can’t really understand a topic, or know that you understand it, until you can write about all aspects of it. That’s what the hated essays in school do - they both assess knowledge, and force learning.

When you depend on AI to generate outlines and papers, or depend on them to do your structural thinking for you, you aren’t learning. When you use AI to fact-check, grammar-check, and make recommendations about clarity of presentation, you’re using a sophisticated tool inside the learning process. It’s similar when studying medicine, the AI can be a tool, crutch, or cheat.

What Do We Gain and Lose When Students Use AI to Write? - EdSurge