AI drives latest education innovation at SIU Medicine
In a small laboratory on the SIU School of Medicine campus in Springfield, third-year medical student Jake Schmid can see into the future.
His eyes are fixed on the screen as he interviews patient Randy Rhodes, a long-haul truck driver from Carbondale. Rhodes sits in a downstate clinic space identical to the scores of rooms in SIU’s adjacent health care facilities. He discusses his current concerns about his weight and fatigue, while Schmid jots notes and asks follow-up questions to learn more about the middle-aged man on the monitor…