Students used AI mainly for retrieving pharmacological mechanisms, generating PPT outlines, and clarifying concepts under rules requiring verification and student responsibility for AI outputs¶

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q2 i? Instructors permitted AI for information retrieval, outline generation, and concept explanation but prohibited direct submission of AI-generated content; students had to verify, modify, and integrate AI outputs and bore full responsibility for accuracy and originality. → Liu YJ 2026

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Liu YJ 2026¶

Liu YJ, Ma HZ, Luo HY, Xiong YX, Qu FW, Xie JP, Guo Y. (2026). From traditional classroom to AI-enhanced flipped classroom: a three-year pedagogical evolution for international students in pharmacology. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-026-09608-7

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Design description of the 2025 AI-enhanced cohort's guidance. Students used DeepSeek V3.1 and Kimi across pre-, in-, and post-class phases; no formal training or prompt templates were provided, by design, to observe natural self-directed AI use.

"Students were not allowed to submit AI-generated content directly. They had to verify, modify, and integrate AI outputs with authoritative sources, and they took full responsibility for the accuracy and originality of all submitted work."

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