Educational Technologies

Application of dynamic cases based on large language models in pediatric medical education

  • Wei Xiaotong ,
  • Wen Deliang
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  • Institute of Health Professions Education Assessment and Reform, China Medical University, Shenyang 110122, China

Received date: 2025-04-10

  Online published: 2026-03-27

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Program (72204267); Liaoning Province Doctoral Research Start-up Fund Program (2025-BS-0604)

Abstract

This study aims to break through the limitations of traditional static case design by constructing a ″dynamic prompt model″ based on large language models and exploring its application and effectiveness in pediatric medical education. The model encompasses disease course progression information (prodromal, acute, and recovery phases), a complete clinical decision-making chain (history taking, physical examination, auxiliary investigations, diagnosis, and treatment), and progressively advanced cognitive objectives (remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, and evaluating). The disease list includes two categories: common pediatric diseases and rare diseases. The study selected 45 fourth-year pediatric medical students from China Medical University as research participants to conduct a 4-week learning program. The results indicate that after learning with dynamic cases, the virtual case scores significantly increased from (75.31±15.21) to (82.22±11.43). Critical thinking ability improved from (102.67±10.93) to (110.13±12.61), with system analysis skills rising from (42.85±3.91) to (45.13±4.61) and knowledge exploration willingness increasing from (31.55±3.74) to (36.32±5.11), all P<0.05. The realism scores of different cases were relatively high (all>4), and the difficulty ratings were reasonably distributed. In the experience evaluation, the ″enhancing learning″ dimension scored the highest (4.02±0.47). Therefore, the ″dynamic prompt model″ effectively improved medical students′ clinical thinking and critical thinking abilities, providing an efficient and innovative tool for pediatric medical education.

Cite this article

Wei Xiaotong , Wen Deliang . Application of dynamic cases based on large language models in pediatric medical education[J]. Chinese Journal of Medical Education, 2026 , 46(4) : 269 -274 . DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn115259-20250410-00404

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