Digital Health Grand Rounds

Join us for a virtual Digital Health Grand Rounds hosted by the Arizona Telemedicine Program. Learn from a leader advancing global primary care and digital health, explore innovations in artificial intelligence, telehealth, and health workforce development, and discover how emerging technologies can support health equity and high-quality care for communities worldwide. This is a virtual-only, Zoom-based event.

Presenter

David Duong, MD, MPH, is Director of Global Primary Health Care at Harvard Medical School and a practicing primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His work focuses on digital health, artificial intelligence, and strengthening primary care systems to improve health equity and access to quality care. He leads innovative programs that use technology to support health care workforce development in underserved communities worldwide.

Seminar Title

• Measuring What Matters: AI Standardized Patients and the Future of Competency Assessments for Health Care Professionals
  Guest Speaker

Abstract

Health care quality is multidimensional, encompassing not only clinical knowledge but also reasoning, communication, decision-making, and other aspects of provider performance. However, commonly used assessment tools, including multiple-choice examinations and clinical data audits, capture only a portion of these competencies. Standardized patients and direct observation can provide richer measures of clinical performance, but they are difficult and costly to scale.

Advances in generative AI may offer a new approach. AI-enabled standardized patients can simulate interactive clinical encounters, allowing health care workers to engage in open-ended conversations, make clinical decisions, and receive structured assessment of their performance. This talk will examine the emerging field of AI-enabled standardized patients for clinical competency assessment, drawing on recent research and application examples from the United States and globally.