WELLNESS
Ctrl-Alt-Well: A Guide for AI-Generated Wellness Jennifer Kanapicki Comer, MD,* Andrew Grock, MD,† Robert Lam, MD FAAEM,‡ and Al’ai Alvarez, MD FAAEM§
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Physicians often find themselves writing articles, blogs, and preparing lectures—rewarding yet time-consuming endeavors. Many spend hours devising the perfect, witty title for their next piece. To expedite this process, entering your vision and content into ChatGPT allows AI to quickly generate a selection of title options. AI even helped craft the title of this article! Moreover, AI tools like Midjourney and DallE2 can generate engaging images for projects and slides.3,4 These images can vary from realistic visuals to oil painting effects and cartoon styles in order to perfectly capture your audience’s attention while sidestepping copyright issues.
he rapidly changing landscape of today’s world highlights Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a source of innovation, offering significant opportunities to improve various aspects of our lives. However, despite its growing presence, the full potential of AI in enhancing physician wellness remains an under recognized area in medicine. The AAEM Wellness Committee recently hosted a webinar, “Ctrl-Alt-Well: A Guide for AI-Generated Wellness,” aiming to shed light on the capabilities of AI in enriching both proIntegrating AI into medical practice offers fessional and personal lives. We examsignificant potential for physicians by reducing ine how AI tools can lessen workloads, workloads, automating repetitive tasks, and streamline administrative tasks, and ultimately supporting wellness.” improve task management—efficiencies crucial for freeing up time and promoting wellness. Everyone grapples with burgeoning to-do lists, both professionally and personally, often leading to stress and the feeling of being overwhelmed. AI can markedly ease this burden, saving invaluable time—minutes, hours, and even days—by assisting with our increasing workload. Take, for example, the time-consuming task of writing letters of recommendation. With AI tools like ChatGPT, you can input your thoughts about the individual and their CV, and let AI generate a first draft.1 While every AI-generated draft requires careful review to ensure its accuracy and alignment with your intentions, this can greatly speed up the process, not just for recommendation letters but also for composing emails, which can be notoriously time-consuming. By inputting your intent, AI crafts emails with impeccable grammar, spelling, and even the desired tone, which is particularly helpful after a long and exhausting night shift. Navigating through journal articles and conducting literature searches are tasks that require significant time and effort, especially for those not frequently engaged in such activities. However, AI platforms such as SciSpace present a solution that simplifies these tasks.2 As a browser extension, SciSpace summarizes journal articles and webpages. It highlights important text segments and provides high-level, condensed summaries. Furthermore, for journal club organizers, SciSpace can
Clinical shifts are frequently demanding, leading to feelings of exhaustion and fatigue. Nevertheless, certain AI tools can improve these shifts by liberating your time. For example, drafting discharge instructions can consume a significant amount of time, and yet AI can produce these instructions. The AI versions can be customized to the reading level and translated to the language of our patients! Thus improving both understanding and accessibility. Additionally, AI-powered dictation systems can lessen the burden of documentation to allow speedier and easier chart completion. These systems are particularly useful if your department lacks dictation software and can also simplify charting from home.
Integrating AI into medical practice offers significant potential for physicians by reducing workloads, automating repetitive tasks, and ultimately supporting wellness. As you consider integrating these suggestions into your routine, reflect on the substantial benefits of dedicating more time to personal well-being. Let’s welcome AI as a valuable asset to improve our professional practices and enrich our path toward personal well-being. Author’s Note: The authors declare no financial conflicts of interest related to any of the applications mentioned in this article. References
*Stanford University; @kanapicki 1. https://chat.openai.com/ 2. https://typeset.io/ †UCLA; @AndyGrock ‡University of Colorado; @doclam01 3. https://www.midjourney.com/home 4. https://openai.com/dall-e-2 §Stanford University; @alvarezzzy
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