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Weekly Activity: Complete a prompt engineering challenge to put your new skills to the test.

  • 1.  Weekly Activity: Complete a prompt engineering challenge to put your new skills to the test.

    Posted 20 days ago
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    Health Literacy Prompt Engineering Challenge

    Scenario:

    You are a health literacy specialist tasked with improving the readability and accessibility of a patient education handout about high blood pressure (or any topic of your choice). You want to use AI to help simplify complex medical language for a general audience while maintaining accuracy. You will need text from an actual handout to perform this exercise.

    Part 1: Crafting Effective Prompts

    Your goal is to create AI prompts that will help you generate content that is:

    • Written at a 5th–6th grade reading level

    • Culturally appropriate

    • Free of medical jargon

    • Clear and actionable

    Start with the following prompt:

    "Rewrite the following text about high blood pressure in a way that is easier for patients to understand."

    Now, refine this prompt in three different ways to make it more precise. Consider specifying:

    • The reading level

    • The format (e.g., bullet points, paragraph, or infographic summary)

    • The audience (e.g., a parent with limited health literacy)

    • The tone (e.g., friendly, reassuring, motivational)

    Write out your three improved prompts.

    Part 2: Evaluating AI Responses

    Use one of your refined prompts in an AI tool of your choice (ChatGPT, Claude, or another AI assistant).

    Analyze the response and evaluate it based on:

    • Accuracy: Does it keep the key medical facts correct?

    • Readability: Is the language simple and clear?

    • Cultural Sensitivity: Is it appropriate for a diverse audience?

    • Actionability: Does it help the reader know what to do next?

    Make at least one revision to your prompt to improve the AI-generated response and try again.

    Part 3: Reflection

    Answer the following questions:

    • What changes to your prompt led to the most useful response?

    • What did you learn about how AI interprets different instructions?

    • How can this skill help you in future health literacy work?



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    Tracy Mehan
    Director of Research Translation & Communication
    Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Columbus, OH United States
    tracy.mehan@Nationwidechildrens.org
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