Dr. Erin Aspenlieder is an Associate Director with the Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning at McMaster University. She is the coordinator for the Task Force on Generative AI in Teaching and Learning and led the development of McMaster's Provisional Guidelines on the Use of Generative AI in Teaching and Learning. She holds a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from McMaster.

Rebecca Taylor is an Educational Developer with the Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation, and Excellence in Teaching. She has over 10 years of experience in delivering diverse teaching and learning supports for faculty, instructors, staff, and graduate students. Currently, her priorities include coordinating McMaster’s Valuing and Evaluating Teaching Hub, leading the MacPherson Institute’s Educational Development Fellows program, and serving as the MacPherson Institute’s key contact liaison for the Faculty of Health Sciences. Rebecca's research interests include feedback on teaching practices, student evaluations of teaching, policy in post-secondary education, and indigenization and decolonization of teaching and learning.

In this week's core session of Grand Rounds, they describe the capabilities, limitations and considerations of generative AI tools, while discussing possible applications of generative AI tools for health education and clinicians. They also provide an experiment with generative AI tools based on use cases from participants.