McGraw Hill has announced new and expanded AI capabilities within its medical education solutions, debuting Clinical Reasoning by McGraw Hill and extending AI Reader into First Aid Forward to personalize learning for medical students.
Clinical Reasoning by McGraw Hill, a digital solution that uses GenAI to deliver lifelike patient simulations for learners preparing to become clinicians. McGraw Hill also expanded the use of AI Reader into First Aid Forward to bring a GenAI study tool aimed at helping students actively engage with and deepen their understanding of course materials to more learners.
Clinical Reasoning by McGraw Hill is an AI-powered learning tool built on trusted, evidence-based content to prepare medical students to think like clinicians in real-world care. Its features include AI-powered Patient Interactive Encounters that allow learners to practice diagnostic conversations before seeing real patients by gathering patient histories, ordering labs or exams, narrowing possible conditions, and submitting a suggested final diagnosis. Each encounter ends with an evaluation report that compares the learner’s choices with an expert-vetted diagnostic approach and provides feedback to guide improvement.
Developed and vetted by McGraw Hill’s medical education experts, including Dr. Scott Stern, Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Reasoning and author of Symptom to Diagnosis, the solution also includes structured, evidence-based problem modules that teach step-by-step reasoning through common patient problems using pivotal questions, and a comprehensive collection of illness scripts that provide high-yield reference material for the problem modules and interactive patient cases, covering typical and atypical presentations, red-flag findings, and patterns essential to sharpening differential diagnosis.
Stern emphasized that reasoning through a patient problem to reach an accurate diagnosis requires opportunities for deliberate practice and meaningful feedback, and that the tool is intended to support learners in transitioning from classroom to clinic.
Clinical Reasoning is designed to complement classroom and clinic-based faculty instruction and to help programs improve consistency, reduce variability in teaching, and strengthen diagnostic accuracy.
Scott Grillo, President of McGraw Hill Professional, highlighted that combining trusted medical content with AI-powered practice is intended to help future clinicians develop skills, confidence, and judgment for diagnostic decisions in real-world care. He also noted that the solution expands the company’s suite of digital offerings to more than 3,000 medical learning institutions and their learners worldwide.
McGraw Hill’s AI Reader is now available within First Aid Forward, integrating generative AI study support into the digital learning solution used by medical students to prepare for board exams such as the United States Medical Licensing Examination.
First introduced in McGraw Hill’s Higher Education digital learning offerings, AI Reader is an embedded generative AI tool designed to support active reading and help students engage more deeply with course materials. Within First Aid Forward, learners can highlight text and generate practice questions based on First Aid’s vetted content rather than external sources.
David Cortese, Chief Digital Information Officer, McGraw Hill, reported that more than 1 million unique learners have used AI Reader across the company’s other digital solutions and has asserted that internal data and insights indicate a positive impact on learning outcomes. He added that the expansion brings AI Reader’s personalized learning capabilities to medical students through First Aid Forward.
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