A study shows that #AI can make CT findings easier to understand. #Patients rated the automatically simplified texts as more comprehensible and more helpful. However, a review by #healthprofessionals remains necessary: http://go.tum.de/382543

#LLMs #CTImaging

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ZDNet: Patients trust AI’s medical advice over doctors – even when it’s wrong, study finds. “The medical community is both interested in and somewhat concerned about the growing tendency for people to seek medical advice from ChatGPT and other generative AI systems. And they ought to be concerned, as it appears people are likely to trust a bot for medical advice more than they trust doctors, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/zdnet-patients-trust-ais-medical-advice-over-doctors-even-when-its-wrong-study-finds/

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Teach about the impact of disinformation, science skepticism & government distrust on vaccination efforts with The Invisible Shield and our learning guide.

From RadicalMedia, made possible by Bloomberg Philanthropies, now streaming on PBS.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/the-invisible-shield/

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#TheInvisibleShield #NationalImmunizationAwarenessMonth #PublicHealth #Healthcare #STEMEducation #CovidIsNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #HealthCare #Education #Homeschooling #HealthWorkers #HealthProfessionals

Africa: Health Workforce Plight in Africa: [Africa CDC] The movement of African health professionals away from their home countries, predominantly towards higher-income nations is a critical challenge to the sustainability and resilience of African health systems. The loss of skilled personnel is worsening workforce shortages, undermining healthcare delivery capacity, and… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TK5WLg #HealthWorkforce #AfricanHealthcare #UniversalHealthCoverage #HealthProfessionals #AfricaCDC

Ground-breaking new report reveals Canada can’t train enough #doctors and other #healthprofessionals. Unless we dramatically change how we do things. | #CMA https://www.cma.ca/about-us/what-we-do/press-room/ground-breaking-new-report-reveals-canada-cant-train-enough-doctors-and-other-health-professionals https://www.cma.ca/about-us/what-we-do/press-room/ground-breaking-new-report-reveals-canada-cant-train-enough-doctors-and-other-health-professionals#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=3bde04d7-c19a-4455-9a18-edcb16048bda “With the 2023 OECD average number of new graduates at 14.2 per 100,000 population, Canada is at the bottom of the pack, producing 7.5 new doctors per 100,000 people with only Japan, Korea and Israel lagging behind… (1/2)