Category: Clinical
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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…
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Rejected AMEE abstract (oral presentation) | Is ‘being human’ enough? Preparing for clinical practice in the age of artificial intelligence
See this brief post on my reasons for sharing rejections. Introduction Identity is central to our understanding of the health professions, and much of professionaleducation revolves around this core value. The introduction of artificially intelligent tools (AI-based systems) into clinical practice has led to resistance in the face of perceived threats to clinician autonomy (Jussupow…
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Having a conversation with an article through natural language processing
Thanks to Ben Gordon for pointing me towards explainpaper. In How to read a book (1972), Mortimer Adler says that “Reading…should be a conversation between you and the author.” Which is why I don’t read without a figurative pen in my hand; As I’m reading I want to mark up the text with questions and…
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Suggestions for clinicians wanting to work in health AI
If you’re a clinician interested in working in health AI: Learn about AI concepts and related domains (e.g. NLP, expert systems, robotics, etc) before spending any time learning to code. Focus on the many nuances of clinical practice that come with years of experience at the bedside. Study human decision-making and the influence of biases…
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I was on the Man & Machine podcast last week
Last week I had a conversation with Ean Bett of the Man & Machine podcast, which we recorded and published. I had a great time talking to Ean about some of the progress we see taking place in clinical AI.
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Comment: Developing medical artificial intelligence leaders
This is an open-access Really Good Stuff article from the journal Medical Education. I was excited to read it as I thought it might provide some useful ideas for some of my teaching, but I was disappointed in the evaluation of the project. Machine learning applications are increasingly used in medicine. The demand for ‘augmented…