ChatGPT-facilitated professional development: evidence from professional trainers’ learning achievements, self-worth, and self-confidence

Abstract

ABSTRACT Professional trainers play an important role in helping new recruits adapt to the workplace. In general hospitals, training courses for clinical teachers still adopt the lecture method. Such a teacher training approach focuses on the way of delivering knowledge and skills, while the training for their teaching of case handling as well as their self-worth and self-confidence could be insufficient. In order to cope with this problem, the present study proposed a ChatGPT-based training mode (ChatGPT-TM) for professional development. To verify its effects, we conducted an experiment in a “Using ChatGPT in Case Teaching” course for clinical teachers in hospitals, and explored their learning achievement, self-worth, self-confidence, and learning perceptions using the ChatGPT training mode (ChatGPT-TM) and the conventional training mode (C-TM). The results showed that the ChatGPT-TM could effectively enhance clinical teachers’ learning achievement in case teaching, self-worth, and self-confidence in comparison with the C-TM. The main contribution of this study is that it revealed that ChatGPT could allow clinical teachers to carry out reflection, verify references, and integrate theory and practice, which improved their learning achievement, made them realize their self-worth, and increased their self-confidence in performing professional training tasks.