Erik
Black,
PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Director for Interprofessional Education at the UF Health Science Center
University of Florida
Dr. Black is the Associate Director of Interprofessional Education at the University of Florida and an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Natural language processing (NLP), a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), provides a means for computers to explore written narrative. Widely adopted in a broad range of contexts, including education, it may offer efficient processes to examine qualitative based interprofessional education (IPE) outcomes. AI can be used to explore narrative at many different levels (individual, program, institution). We applied NLP at the programmatic level to explore and understand the narrative data produced during one longitudinal community-based experiential interprofessional learning experience. This…