Category: Clinical
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Clinical AI scribes and the redistribution of narrative power
Clinical AI scribes redistribute narrative control in medical consultations, creating unresolved tensions between equity and manipulation. The same mechanisms that might help marginalised patients push back against dismissive care could enable strategic gaming of medical records. This technology reveals that clinical documentation was never purely objective and has always been shaped by power.
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Podcast: AI in physiotherapy practice
In this episode of PT Pro Talk, I speak to Mariana Hannah Parks on the impact of AI on physiotherapy practice, from clinical reasoning to how we learn, communicate, and make decisions. We explore how AI can serve as a thought partner, helping therapists reflect on their own practices, identify biases, and explore new perspectives…
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AI in clinical practice – Lincolnshire AHP conference
Earlier today I gave a presentation on generative AI in healthcare at the Lincolnshire AHP conference, focusing on the practical implications of the technology for clinicians. The presentation covered how generative AI works, its current capabilities in the context of clinical practice, and the challenges healthcare systems face in adoption.
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AI and the Business of Practice – IPPTA
AI has the potential to change how physiotherapy practice owners approach business growth, especially for those with limited business experience. Acting as a virtual consultant, AI tools can help analyse market opportunities, develop client personas, and create strategic roadmaps—enabling more sophisticated business planning that was once limited to larger organisations.
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Digital Health Considerations for Clinicians – Norwegian Physiotherapy conference
Digital healthcare tools offer exciting possibilities while raising important questions for practitioners. In this presentation for the 2025 Norwegian Physiotherapy conference, I explored a range of considerations for clinicians around the integration of technology into practice. The key question I considered was, how do we ensure technology serves our patients’ needs while mitigating the risks…
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Thinking with AI: A framework for active engagement
Thinking with AI requires intentional engagement rather than passive consumption. This post presents a four-level framework—from using AI as a sounding board to developing systematic comparative analysis—to help health professions educators maintain active collaboration with AI tools while preserving human agency and critical thinking skills.
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Introduction to AI for Learning – BIP AI for Students
In this presentation for the 2025 Blended Intensive Programme on AI for Students, I explore how the integration of AI in health professions education transforms learning by serving as a coach, creative partner, research assistant, and clinical companion. This collaborative approach enhances students’ abilities to handle complex clinical scenarios while maintaining professional judgment as the…
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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 – Norwegian Physiotherapy Association
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.