Adam Rodman

In case you were wondering why there hasn't been a new @BedsideRounds in a while ... magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/can-a…

This is great! Congrats. At @montefioreIM we have a similar track offering via @montebiodesign program! Helping aspiring “AI bilinguals”!

When I saw Star Trek: TNG as a kid, I thought Data and Worf were the main characters of the show. Later, when I rewatched it as a teenager, I thought it was Picard. Now, rewatching it again, I realize the main character was Riker all along.

Another great @Google paper. 💊 AI crushed the usual clinic bottlenecks here because the team wrapped the model in tight medical guardrails, let real physicians watch everything it said, and then proved the setup works with a head‑to‑head simulation against human residents. 🩺…

Our new state-of-the-art AI model Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past. 📜 Ancient inscriptions often lack context – it's like solving a puzzle with 90% of the pieces lost to time. It helps researchers interpret and situate inscriptions in their past context. 🧵

So excited and honored that we’ve been named one of Time Magazine’s Best Podcasts of All Time. Only four science podcasts made the cut, so we’re pretty hyped about it. 😇 Read what Time wrote about us here: time.com/collections/10…

LLMs are weirder than we think with all sorts of complex implications that we don’t fully understand.

Incredible work from @thekaransinghal, @rahularoradfs, and the teams @OpenAI and @PendaHealth. Carefully designed real-world studies like this one are critical steps towards enabling AI to improve human health. Can't help but feel inspired by the stories and potential here!

We saw significant relative error reductions: history-taking (-32%), investigations (-10%), diagnostic (-16%), treatment (-13%) for clinicians with vs. without AI. At Penda alone, AI Consult would avert diagnostic errors in 22k visits and treatment errors in 29k visits yearly.

📣 Excited to share our real-world study of an LLM clinical copilot, a collab between @OpenAI and @PendaHealth. Across 39,849 live patient visits, clinicians with AI had a 16% relative reduction in diagnostic errors and a 13% reduction in treatment errors vs. those without. 🧵

What an amazing opportunity!! Congrats to @TradIMYale for putting this together!

In an editorial, V. L. Murthy, MD, PhD, writes that we may be entering an era of specialist–generalist medical AI paradox, wherein AI more rapidly advances in performing tasks that humans require specialization to perform than in general medical tasks. nejm.ai/4nm6054

We are excited to share our latest pre-print enabling effective human oversight for AMIE, our research diagnostic dialogue AI. We introduce a new asynchronous oversight paradigm, decoupling history-taking by AMIE from sharing a human-approved diagnosis – a thread 🧵:

Looks like a good person in the UK kindly spread the word about my free AI in #MedEd newsletter. There’s been a surge in subscribers from UK. Thank you, whoever you are. I’ll keep delivering practical insights and the latest developments to make it worth your while.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Moon—and with them, the world took a giant leap. That moment sparked a legacy of exploration that continues today as @NASA and its partners advance toward Artemis II and prepare for the next great frontier: Mars.

Where were you #OTD (in fact, on this exact day – Friday, July 18th, 1969) 56 years ago? I can tell you where I was…on the way to the Moon! Happy #Apollo11 Friday!

Lavigne and colleagues evaluate the AI-Standardized Clinical Examination framework, which leverages text-based simulations with virtual patients and AI-driven assessment. Read the full study results: nejm.ai/3TEiuHO

🚨New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls

LLM is 4x BETTER THAN DOCTORS!? Blasphemy? Or legit? 🔀 Separate hype from reality with special guest @AdamRodmanMD & BTK ED fellow Dr. Ayman Ali. 🎧app.behindtheknife.org/podcast/journa…🎧

How can artificial intelligence transform medical education by providing realistic patient simulations that enhance clinical skills training?@NEJM_AI @umontpellier "AI-Standardized Clinical Examination Training on OSCE Performance" • Objective structured clinical examinations…

This figure has its analogue in many recent publications: MD + AI < AI. Many reasons have been profferred but have yet to be proven. If, as some say, it is related to training, that should be addressed soon. CC @emollick