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January 2, 2025JMIR Medical EducationOpen Access

Assessing Familiarity, Usage Patterns, and Attitudes of Medical Students Toward ChatGPT and Other Chat-Based AI Apps in Medical Education: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study

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SESafia Elwaleed ElhassanAlfaisal University MSMuhammad Raihan SajidAlfaisal University HTHala TamimYork University

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Cross-sectional survey reveals high familiarity and varied usage patterns of AI chatbots among medical students, indicating shifting trends in medical training.

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To assess the familiarity, usage patterns, and ethical attitudes of medical students toward ChatGPT and other chat-based artificial intelligence applications in medical education.
Cross-sectional questionnaire study conducted between October 8, 2023, and November 22, 2023, at Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia.
Survey distributed via social media targeting enrolled medical students in years 1 through 6 aged 18 years or older (N=293).
Statistical analysis performed using chi-square tests to evaluate relationships across gender, study year, familiarity, and usage reasons.
Males reported significantly higher familiarity with ChatGPT (93/95, 97.9%) than females (180/198, 90.9%; P=.03) and showed greater use of Google Bard and Microsoft Bing ChatGPT (P<.001).
Clinical-year students utilized ChatGPT significantly more frequently for general writing tasks than preclinical students (P=.005).
Regarding coursework ethics, 46.4% (136/293) considered AI chatbot use ethical, 29.4% (86/293) remained neutral, and 24.2% (71/293) viewed it as unethical.

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Elhassan et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a83401f3f5d08169db4828e https://doi.org/10.2196/63065

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Cross-sectional survey reveals high familiarity and varied usage patterns of AI chatbots among medical students, indicating shifting trends in medical training.

Assessing Familiarity, Usage Patterns, and Attitudes of Medical Students Toward ChatGPT and Other Chat-Based AI Apps in Medical Education: Cross-Sectional Questionnaire Study

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