A Review of Natural Language Processing in Medical Education.

Publication Type	Academic Article
Authors	Chary M, Parikh S, Manini A, Boyer E, Radeos M
Journal	West J Emerg Med
Volume	20
Issue	1
Pagination	78-86
Date Published	12/12/2018
ISSN	1936-9018
Keywords	Education, Medical, Natural Language Processing
Abstract	Natural language processing (NLP) aims to program machines to interpret human language as humans do. It could quantify aspects of medical education that were previously amenable only to qualitative methods. The application of NLP to medical education has been accelerating over the past several years. This article has three aims. First, we introduce the reader to NLP. Second, we discuss the potential of NLP to help integrate FOAM (Free Open Access Medical Education) resources with more traditional curricular elements. Finally, we present the results of a systematic review. We identified 30 articles indexed by PubMed as relating to medical education and NLP, 14 of which were of sufficient quality to include in this review. We close by discussing potential future work using NLP to advance the field of medical education in emergency medicine.
DOI	10.5811/westjem.2018.11.39725
PubMed ID	30643605
PubMed Central ID	PMC6324711