Category: Clinical
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Paper – Superhuman performance of OpenAI-o1 on clinical reasoning tasks
New study shows that OpenAI’s o1-preview model achieves superhuman performance in medical diagnosis and reasoning tasks, surpassing both previous AI models and human physicians. The model excels in differential diagnosis and clinical management decisions, though showing similar performance to existing models in probabilistic reasoning tasks.
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Distributed agency in health systems
In this short lecture for the Norwegian Physiotherapy Association, I ask “What if the healthcare system could think and act?” They key takeaway is that the health professions will need to evolve to take into account the notion of distributed agency, where accountability and responsibility for patient outcomes are shared by human-machine coalitions.
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Generative AI in Clinical Practice – Canadian Physiotherapy Association
This presentation for the Orthopaedic Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association explored the implications of Generative AI (GenAI) in clinical physiotherapy practice, with a focus on its potential impact on patient care, clinical decision-making, and professional development.
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Generative AI in Health Professions Education – FAIMER Connect Continued Learning
The second session of the FAIMER Connect Continued Learning series explored the impact and potential of generative AI in the fields of health professions practice, education, and research.
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The remembering self and the experiencing self
How might significant aspects of health professions education change, if we discover that patients’ memories of their pain can’t be trusted?
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Physiopedia AI course for healthcare professionals is now live
The Physiopedia AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals Programme is a comprehensive course exploring AI’s impact on healthcare education, research, and clinical practice. This free online programme introduces frontier AI models, discusses AI’s potential in enhancing learning and research, and examines its role in diagnosis and clinical performance. Learn to integrate AI into your professional life…
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Claude, what’s going on in this picture?
A post where I give Claude two images and simply ask it to describe what it sees. The responses come awfully close to what we might call ‘diagnosis’.
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Developing AI literacy in professional education
Developing AI literacy in students shouldn’t rely on mandatory training. Instead, I suggest using AI to create personalised learning programmes for students that help them address real-world problems that are important to them. I give an example of preparing for clinical placement using generative AI. By having students interact with AI to build unique plans…
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Generative AI and the cognitive apprenticeship model for developing clinical reasoning
This post explores how generative AI can support cognitive apprenticeship in developing clinical reasoning skills. Using a structured approach, I show how AI can enhance various aspects of learning, from providing domain knowledge to simulating patient scenarios, ultimately creating a comprehensive framework for AI-assisted clinical education.
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Podcast – AI and the Evolution of Medical Thought
In this episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Adam Rodman shares his unique journey from a historian to a physician deeply interested in the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Primary Care
The rapid advancement of AI in primary care is outpacing professional expectations. A 2019 study showed GP skepticism about AI’s potential in diagnosis and patient interaction. However, recent developments like Google DeepMind’s AMIE demonstrate AI’s superior performance in these areas, highlighting the need for the medical field to adapt quickly to technological changes.
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Turn academic papers into AI-generated audio discussions
Google has an experimental product called Illuminate, which turns academic papers into short, AI-generated audio conversations. It’s quite limited at the moment but with a few additional features could be an incredible product for busy academics.
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Virtual clinical simulation scenarios
I’m working with the VR team at Realmdigital to explore simulation scenarios for interactive clinics in virtual reality.
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Using Claude to rapidly build an evidence-based CPD activity
How I used Claude to rapidly develop the pedagogical framework and outline of an evidence-based CPD activity or assessment task.
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In Beta podcast: The challenges of early autonomy for students on clinical placement
In this episode we talk about the realities and demands faced by physiotherapy students during clinical placements in resource-limited environments. The focus of the conversation is the relatively limited contact time that supervisors have with students in South Africa, and how this means that students manage their own caseloads with minimal supervision.
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Using Claude to create patient personas for health professions education
Health professions education aims to provide students with practical clinical experience and skills in person-centred care before graduating, and simulated patient interactions are a potential teaching method. However, these interactions can be resource-intensive and expensive, especially if actors are included. AI assistants like Claude provide a scalable alternative for role-playing dialogue. This post describes the…
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ChatGPT is – and isn’t – a good psychotherapist
First, a caveat. I know that ‘psychotherapy’ and ‘doctors treating depression’ aren’t the same thing, so this isn’t a direct comparison. However, it’s worth noting that few people are going to make the distinction. They’re going to see conflicting articles about ChatGPT being good – and bad – for ‘mental health related stuff’, and find…
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Link: ChatGPT outperforms doctors in depression recommendations
Schreiner, M. (2023). ChatGPT outperforms human doctors in unbiased depression treatment recommendations. THE DECODER. “…for mild depression, ChatGPT recommended psychotherapy without medication by the majority, in line with clinical guidelines. In contrast, only 4.3% of primary care physicians recommended psychotherapy and were more likely to prescribe medication. For major depression, ChatGPT recommended a combined approach…
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Link: Nabla Copilot
“Nabla Copilot automatically generates clinical notes, reducing stress and improving patient care.” Note: I haven’t used this tool so have no idea if it even works. This definitely isn’t promotion.
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Rejected AMEE abstract (Point of view) | Human replacement by artificial intelligence: An heretical point of view
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. I should note that my intention with this submission was to take an extreme position on a topic, to test our collective assumptions. I’m not convinced that the claim (i.e. health professions workers will be replaced by AI) is true. But I’m also not convinced…