ChatGPT-4 Performance on German Continuing Medical Education—Friend or Foe (Trick or Treat)? Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Christian Burisch   ^{1, 2 *} , Dr rer nat ;   Abhav Bellary   ^{3 *} , Cand med ;   Frank Breuckmann   ^{4, 5} , Prof Dr med ;   Jan Ehlers   ² , Prof Dr med vet ;   Serge C Thal   ^{6, 7} , Prof Dr med ;   Timur Sellmann   ^{7, 8 *} , Dr med ;   Daniel Gödde   ^{9 *} , Dr med

¹ State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Regional Government Düsseldorf, Leibniz-Gymnasium, Essen, Germany

² Department of Didactics and Education Research in the Health Sector, Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

³ Faculty of Health, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

⁴ Department of Cardiology, Pneumology, Neurology and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinik Kitzinger Land, Kitzingen, Germany

⁵ Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

⁶ Department of Anesthesiology, HELIOS University Hospital, Wuppertal, Germany

⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology I, Witten-Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

⁸ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Hospital, BETHESDA zu Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany

⁹ Department of Pathology and Molecular Pathology, HELIOS University Hospital Wuppertal, University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany

*these authors contributed equally