Name: Session #11 - Integrating AI Learning Activities into an Existing Health Communication Program/ORCID Adoption by WUSM Faculty: Connecting ORCID Records to Research Output and Funding/Sharing Human Subject Research Data at Digital Commons Data@Becker Repos
Start: 2025-05-20T14:00:00-0500
End: 2025-05-20T14:40:00-0500

Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:00pm - 2:40pm CDT

Virtual - Zoom

Open Zoom

Integrating AI Learning Activities into an Existing Health Communication Program: Since 2015, I have taught a 2-hour Health Literacy and Media Literacy seminar as part of the 3rd-year Physical Therapy curriculum at WashU Medicine. This session covers health literacy statistics and general best practices for communicating with patients. It also allows students to practice reviewing patient handouts for accessibility and readability. As part of this seminar, students participate in an activity requiring them to search online for health information that a patient might search for on their own. For instance, a student might search "spinal stenosis" and review the results a patient would come across. Then, students discuss why or why not this source might not be helpful for a patient researching on their own. In January 2025, I expanded this activity to include reviewing the AI overview Google provides for health information. Students reviewed the AI overview and the respective resources provided during this activity. We discussed the accessibility, readability, and reliability of the resources provided. This opened the door for discussing the pros and cons of using AI in health information-seeking.

ORCID Adoption by WUSM Faculty: Connecting ORCID Records to Research Output and Funding: In response to the August 2022 OSTP memo, the Bernard Becker Medical Library began monitoring ORCID adoption among the School of Medicine faculty. A bi-annual analysis has been conducted to not only gauge the adoption levels of an ORCID iD for Washington University School of Medicine Faculty but also connect it to research outputs and funding. The information gathered has helped identify areas for additional outreach at a department level.

Sharing Human Subject Research Data at Digital Commons Data@Becker Repository: With more journals' requirements on data availability statements and the 2023 NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy, there is a growing need for WashU researchers to share data in repositories. HIPAA Privacy Rules apply to human subject research data and often prohibit sharing data in open-access repositories. Digital Commons Data@Becker is WashU Medicine’s institutional repository that offers both open and restricted data access, and I will provide an overview of our workflow to deposit and share human subject research data generated at WashU.

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