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ChatGPT Essentials for Clinicians

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by Franz Wiesbauer, MD MPH
If you're not using ChatGPT and other language learning models (LLM) to enhance your abilities and streamline your work, you're missing out on the future of medicine! Let's dive into the basics of ChatGPT and master the art of effective prompting—the key to harnessing the potential of these AI tools. This will enable you to compose academic content, simplify information, organize data, and much more.
1.5 CME
2 Quizzes
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After completing this course, you'll be able to

  • Have a framework to understand how large language models like ChatGPT work
  • Comprehend the main differences between two popular AI chatbots, and choose the ideal one based on the proposed task
  • Guide the AI using four important prompting techniques
  • Incorporate role-prompting and parameters into prompts
  • Refine the AI's output via iterative interactions
  • Use ChatGPT to generate topic sentences, transition sentences, and introductions for academic texts
  • Use ChatGPT as an assistant for writing the methods, discussion, and conclusion sections of an academic paper
  • Use ChatGPT to change writing styles, edit text, and as a brainstorming partner
  • Use ChatGPT to structure data and find emojis
  • Use ChatGPT to help assess and better understand complex texts
  • Master four ways to use ChatGPT to enhance learning
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Chapter 1

ChatGPT basics

Learn the science behind ChatGPT, the differences between two popular AI chatbots, and prompting basics.
7 Lessons
27:10 min
ChatGPT basics intro
0:38 min
Deciphering the science behind LLMs
6:07 min
Identifying differences between two popular AI chatbots
6:12 min
Learning the core principles of prompting
5:15 min
Using role prompting and parameters
5:51 min
Conversing with AI
3:07 min
ChatGPT basics quiz
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Chapter 2

Unleashing the full potential of ChatGPT

Learn advanced prompting techniques for medical and scientific writing, data structuring, boosting learning, and making sense of complex texts.
9 Lessons
35:00 min
Unleashing the full potential of ChatGPT intro
0:29 min
Supercharging medical and scientific writing with ChatGPT (part 1)
6:00 min
Supercharging medical and scientific writing with ChatGPT (part 2)
6:47 min
Understanding basic applications of ChatGPT (part 1)
4:55 min
Understanding basic applications of ChatGPT (part 2)
3:02 min
Navigating complex texts and contracts with ChatGPT
4:36 min
Boosting your learning experience with ChatGPT
8:22 min
Unleashing the full potential of ChatGPT quiz
Quiz
ChatGPT Essentials outro
0:49 min
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Franz Wiesbauer, MD MPH
Franz is the founder and CEO of Medmastery. He is an internist with a specialization in cardiology and a master’s in public health from Johns Hopkins University.
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ACCME accredited provider
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of CME Consultants and Medmastery GmbH. CME Consultants is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Consultants designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nora Drenaline
Professional development
Peter Blocker

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