In the medical field, we use our own ‘medical-slang’ for unofficial communication about patients between colleagues. We skip grammar, use funky abbreviations & like to delve straight to the point – the kind of English that would make Shakespeare turn in his grave, but it’s here to stay and very effective.
Previously we saw how artificial intelligence (AI) could create a routine discharge summary with little information. While exploring more clinical uses for the free artificially intelligent software ChatGPT , using the right question prompt is important to get you the response you desire. Here’s an example of using ChatGPT for generating compressed, unofficial, clinical hand-off style communication notes for your clinical colleagues :
And if you wanted ChatGPT to make something even shorter to sign-out just the main medical issues – try this prompt :
“You are an experienced and efficient physician in USA. Create an executive summary of the gist of the medical problem in this paragraph using only two lines to use as a hand-off. Ok to use standard medical acronyms & shorthand. Only include medical history & labs that are relevant to the main issue: “
Here’s the response I got for the same example above:
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