AIIS: Artificial Intelligence, Innovation & Society

A project for the Future of Medicine

AI & Soft Skills Training  for Medical Students

March 2023

University of Salamanca (USAL) and the AIIS consortium is continuing to present new results of the Project AIIS: Artificial Intelligence, Innovation & Society. The project aims to improve medical students' digital & social skills with an innovative online program. At this phase the consortium developed the AIIS Training Pills (Training Material).

AIIS Training Pills

Training Courses on AI & Social Skills for Medical Students

The consortium developed 12 courses for Medical Students in order to train them on AI and cultivate their Soft Skills.

• Design of Training Pills: The consortium decided to create their own Specifically Designed Trained Material in order to be:
  • Ideal for Medical Students
  • Based on educational needs emerged from our research
  • Developed by Experts on AI & Soft Skills developed the content
  • Structured by Trainers with university teaching experience
• Format of Training Material: for a holistic and engaging educational experience:         
  • 60 Videos: For an engaging way of learning for busy medical students
  • 61 Presentations: For detailed set of information for students to study
  • 58 Tasks: To examine the knowledge level acquired from the course
  • 20 Reflection Zones: With extra material for a deep dive on the topics
• Content of the Training Pills:
  • AI Skills
    • Introduction to AI
    • Expert systems and their role in the healthcare sector
    • Introduction to machine learning
    • Machine learning in the healthcare sector
    • Introduction to machine vision
    • Image recognition in the healthcare sector
  • Soft Skills
    • Self knowledge and initiative
    • Capacity to adapt to different situations
    • Communication
    • Teamwork
    • Work organisation
    • Work ethic
• A collaborative learning platform for Medical Students: The AIIS Learning Program was hosted on the AIIS EduVerse which is a virtual environment platform, specially designed for this program, and accessible through PC using mouse and keyboard or a Virtual Reality (VR) headset.

You can see a summary of the Training Pills here and for more results click here.

Upcoming Results

Now we are working on our next results which are:

1. Working groups of Medical Students to solve challenges using their knowledge of AI & Soft Skills
2. Validation and Recognition of the AIIS Training in Europe’s Higher Institutions

Collaboration

In this project we have created a strong consortium which consists of 9 Organizations (Universities and private companies):

1. University of Salamanca (Leader of the Project), Spain
2. CIBER ISCiii, Spain
3. MEUS, Spain
4. University of Turku, Finland
5. Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland
6. University of Thessaly, Greece
7. Science For You - SciFY, Greece
8. Xebia, Netherlands
9. University of Mons, Belgium

Meet the 36 professionals of our team here.

Get Involved

Join the AIIS Community here and you will:

• get useful insights about the current situation of medical studies in EU countries
• stay tuned on educational platform that we prepared
• participate in interesting actions about the future of medicine

Find us online    

More about the project on the website: https://aiis.usal.es/

Contact us through Email: aiis@usal.es, Subscribe to our Newsletter and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

Project Management: Pedro Luis Sánchez & María Jesús Santos, USAL aiis@usal.es

Contact Person: Despoina Chalvatzi, SciFY dchalvatzi@scify.org

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Funding

This project is funded by Erasmus + under KeyAction 2 (KA2), Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, funded by the European Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

In Other Languages

Read the Press Release in Spanish, French, Finish and Greek.