Andrzej A. Kononowicz
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Andrzej A. Kononowicz, PhD, MSc, is associate professor at Jagiellonian University Medical College. Graduated in computer science at University of Science and Technology (AGH) in Kraków and Technical University of Clausthal, he received a PhD in biomedical engineering and a habilitation degree in health sciences. He received a scholarship at the University of Zurich and did a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. His research focuses on application of new technologies in medical education. He participated in several European grants including eViP, Heartfaid, WAVES, BCIME, DID-ACT and iCoViP. He was involved in research on virtual patient integration and their effectiveness, clinical decision support systems with a special emphasis on clinical pathways, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), curriculum planning and clinical reasoning. Currently he is leading the project D-CREDO and participates in an European Union and South-East Asia collaboration called Chapter SEA. |
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Selected papers in the last 5 years
- Fąferek J., Kononowicz A.A., Bogutska N., Da Silva Domingues V., Davydova N., Frankowska A., Iguacel I., Mayer A., Morin L., Pavlyukovich N., Popova I., Shchudrova T., Sudacka M., Szydlak R., Hege I. Applying ChatGPT to plan and create a realistic collection of virtual patients for clinical reasoning training. BMC Med Educ 2025, 25, 1277
- Kıyak YS, Kononowicz AA. Using a Hybrid of AI and Template-Based Method in Automatic Item Generation to Create Multiple-Choice Questions in Medical Education: Hybrid AIG. JMIR Form Res. 2025;9:e65726.
- Mayer A, Hege I, Kononowicz AA, Müller A, Sudacka M. Collaborative Development of Feedback Concept Maps for Virtual Patient–Based Clinical Reasoning Education: Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Med Educ 2025;11:e57331.
- Stathakarou N, Kononowicz AA, Mattsson E, Karlgren K. Gamification in the Design of Virtual Patients for Swedish Military Medics to Support Trauma Training: Interaction Analysis and Semistructured Interview Study. JMIR Serious Games 2024;12:e63390
- Kıyak YS, Kononowicz AA. Case-based MCQ generator: A custom ChatGPT based on published prompts in the literature for automatic item generation. Med Teach. 2024 Aug;46(8):1018-1020.
- Fąferek J, Cariou P-L, Hege I, Mayer A, Morin L, Rodriguez-Molina D, Sousa-Pinto B, Kononowicz AA. Integrating virtual patients into undergraduate health professions curricula: a framework synthesis of stakeholders’ opinions based on a systematic literature review. BMC Med Educ. 2024 Jul 5; 24(1):727.
- Wagner FL, Sudacka M, Kononowicz AA, Elvén M, Durning SJ, Hege I, Huwendiek S.Current status and ongoing needs for the teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning – an international mixed-methods study from the students’ and teachers’ perspective. BMC Med Educ. 2024 Jun 5;24(1):622.
- Huesmann L, Sudacka M, Durning SJ, Georg C, Huwendiek S, Kononowicz AA, Schlegel C, Hege I. Clinical reasoning: What do nurses, physicians, and students reason about. J Interprof Care. 2023;37(6):990-998
- Hege I, Adler M, Donath D, Durning SJ, Edelbring S, Elvén M, Bogusz A, Georg C, Huwendiek S, Körner M, Kononowicz AA, Parodis I, Södergren U, Wagner FL, Wiegleb Edström D. Developing a European longitudinal and interprofessional curriculum for clinical reasoning. Diagnosis (Berl). 2023 Feb 20.
- Kononowicz AA, Torre D, Górski S, Nowakowski M, Hege I. The association between quality of connections and diagnostic accuracy in student-generated concept maps for clinical reasoning education with virtual patients GMS J Med Educ. 2023;40(5):Doc61
