Reclaiming Faculty Time with TAI: The AI Teaching Assistant Built for Medical Education
Medical educators face an impossible choice: spend hours converting PowerPoint decks into interactive modules and crafting board-style assessment questions, or shortchange curriculum quality. What if you didn’t have to choose?
At ScholarRx, we believe AI should amplify faculty expertise, not replace it. That’s why we built TAI (Teaching with Artificial Intelligence), an AI assistant embedded directly in ScholarRx that transforms legacy content into interactive modules and generates draft assessment questions in minutes, not hours.
What is TAI?
TAI is an integrated AI Teaching Assistant that works within the ScholarRx platform you already use. Unlike ChatGPT or other general-purpose AI tools that require copying and pasting content between applications, TAI operates directly alongside you as you build, adapt, and assess curriculum.
What makes TAI different is its agentic framework. Rather than simply responding to prompts, TAI actively guides you through each phase of the curriculum development cycle in a structured sequence. Think of it as having a junior faculty colleague who not only handles time-intensive tasks but also helps you think through the pedagogical implications of each choice by breaking complex development into manageable, logical steps.
Designed to Solve Real Faculty Challenges
TAI addresses the two most pressing bottlenecks in medical education today.
Transforming Legacy Content into Interactive Learning
Many medical schools possess years of valuable content, PowerPoints, PDFs, lecture notes, trapped in static formats. Converting these into structured, interactive learning experiences typically requires significant faculty time and effort.
TAI changes that equation through a structured, collaborative process. When using Bricks Create with TAI, it evaluates your source material and prompt, then begins by developing learning objectives that you can revise, reorder, or regenerate. From there, it drafts an outline so you can think through the structure of your brick and make adjustments before committing to full content development. Once you’ve approved the outline, TAI drafts the brick, which you can then review, optimize, and shape to meet your specific needs.
This phased approach ensures you maintain pedagogical control at each decision point while TAI handles the heavy lifting of content transformation.
The result: Accelerated curriculum modernization with thoughtful pedagogical design, not just automated conversion.
High-quality, board-style assessment writing is both essential and exhausting. Writing questions that align with specific learning objectives while meeting NBME standards can take hours per item.
Integrated with Qmax, TAI uses its agentic framework to guide assessment development. Rather than just generating questions, it helps you think through: What cognitive level should this assess? Which common misconceptions should distractors address? How does this align with your learning objectives? Then it generates draft questions based on your specific needs.
You maintain complete control, reviewing, editing, and approving each item, but TAI’s structured approach helps ensure both efficiency and quality from the start.
Why TAI is Different
While AI tools are proliferating across industries, TAI was built for one purpose: to serve the medical education community.
It’s grounded in four principles that distinguish it from generic AI:
Agentic Intelligence
TAI doesn’t wait for you to know what to ask. Its agentic framework proactively guides you through curriculum and assessment development, helping you think through each phase systematically while maintaining your academic freedom and expertise.
Expert-Backed Foundation
TAI leverages ScholarRx’s peer-reviewed library of Rx Bricks and Qmax questions, with its trusted, validated content developed by medical educators, not scraped from the open internet.
Purpose-Built Intelligence
Unlike general AI that might confuse medical terminology or miss curricular nuances, TAI is designed specifically for medical curriculum design, assessment alignment, and the precision required in high-stakes education.
Security & Faculty Control
All work stays within the secure ScholarRx platform. Your institutional content is never used to train commercial AI models. You maintain complete confidentiality and control: no uploading files to third-party tools, no data leakage, no compliance concerns.
Empowering Faculty Through Time Efficiency
The mission behind TAI is straightforward: return time to educators so they can focus on teaching, mentorship, and innovation.
By automating the most time-consuming aspects of curriculum and assessment creation, while actively guiding you through sound instructional design, TAI helps you invest energy where it creates the greatest impact: supporting student learning and improving educational outcomes.
Consider this scenario: A curriculum committee needs to modernize their neuroscience unit, converting 15 legacy PowerPoint lectures into interactive modules with aligned assessments. Traditionally, this might require 40+ faculty hours. With TAI’s phased approach, developing learning objectives first, then outlines, then full content, the committee can make strategic decisions at each stage while TAI handles content generation. What once took weeks now takes days, leaving faculty to focus on refinement, sequencing, and pedagogical strategy.
See TAI in Action
The true promise of AI in education isn’t automation for automation’s sake; it’s intelligent collaboration. With TAI’s agentic framework, institutions can modernize faster, improve efficiency, and keep faculty expertise at the center of every decision while benefiting from structured, thoughtful guidance through enriched development processes.
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