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Redistributing Epistemic Labor: Prior Knowledge Shapes How Effectively Students Use Large Language Models

2026-03-18

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Medical education prepares students to reason under uncertainty, critically evaluate evidence, and make accountable clinical judgements, epistemic demands that define professional competence. Large language models (LLMs) are now entering this field, shifting the responsibility for seeking and synthesizing information from learners to tools. Whether this redistribution of epistemic labor...

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Literature Corpus work: aa4da685-2b77-551c-b7ce-62fafb20e13f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9084455/v1

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