Tuberculosis: Interdisciplinary View and Representation Using Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Minnaard Vivian , Elbaba Julia 
Published: January 2024

Objective: Analyze the selection of concepts associated with Tuberculosis with an interdisciplinary approach by students from four Medical Sciences programs at a privately managed university in the city of Mar del Plata in 2023.

Materials and Methods: Descriptive, longitudinal research. Sample of 198 students of Medicine Research methodology, Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition, Kinesiology and Physiatry and Speech Therapy.

Results: The activity takes place in 4 phases, each lasting one week and is carried out asynchrony using documents shared online, monitored by the teaching team. In Phase 1, the Bulletin on Tuberculosis in Argentina is presented. All students are divided into 8 groups with members from the 4 majors. Each of them must propose three concepts associated with tuberculosis from their respective disciplines, which cannot be repeated with those selected by their classmates. In the second week, each person chooses one of the three concepts they selected the previous week and places it in a new grid in column A next to your name. In column B you must justify in 30 words why the concept you chose and placed in column A is associated with tuberculosis. In the third column you will indicate the concept of your group and what career the classmate who proposed it is from, pointing with the corresponding color. In the third week, they are presented with a diagram, called a spider web. (Minnaard,2019). In this case, the diagram presents 8 well-defined areas. Four of which correspond to each discipline indicated with preset colors: Speech Therapy, Medicine, Kinesiology, Nutrition. The concept of Tuberculosis is located centrally in the spider web located after the grid. An important aspect, the concepts that are considered most significant should be close to the center and the least significant ones further away. Exchanges between students from different majors must be recorded in this file indicating the name and surname of the person who proposes the concept or agrees with another participant, below the spider web diagram, for example, or if I decide to move it to the intermediate area. It is established that the minimum number of concepts to pass this activity is 20 and the maximum is 30. In the last week, students carefully observe in the spider web the concepts that were selected by students from two or more majors. They select two and create a prompt with them and the concept of tuberculosis using some Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat. The length should not exceed 20 words. Analyze the results of your classmates and together select the most relevant one. Based on this, they develop a research problem contemplating the aspects that are always considered. Place the result in the second box. That question is transformed into a statement and placed in the AI chat requesting to make an image inspired by the styles of famous abstract and cubist painters.

Conclusions: The implementation of strategies that encourage creativity and reflective thinking has been and is a challenge for higher-level teachers.