Friday small groups
One hour every Friday, required, in one of three time slots · practise talking about AI out loud
Being able to talk about AI with an attending, a colleague, a patient, or an interviewer is a skill, and it gets better with practice, not reading. Friday is where you practise.
How the hour runs
| Minutes | What |
|---|---|
| 0 to 15 | Round the group: one thing AI helped you learn this week, and one thing you caught it getting wrong. From your learning journal. |
| 15 to 45 | Breakout rooms of four or five, the same people each week. Two scenario cards, below. |
| 45 to 60 | Back together: what was hard to say, and what worked. |
How to use a card. One person plays the role on the card, one answers, and the others watch. Three minutes, then two minutes of feedback: what landed, what was vague, what was more certain than the evidence allows. Swap roles and run it again. There is no right script. The goal is to sound like yourself: informed, honest about what you do not know, and not defensive.
Optional: keep the group’s notes in one place. If your account offers it, your group can keep its cards and notes in a shared Project in ChatGPT Edu. Only people you invite can see it, and sharing a Project turns off personal memory in it.
The cards
Week 1 (October 16): introductions
The interview question. Play: a residency interviewer. “So, what do you think about AI in medicine?” Then one follow-up: “Do you use it yourself?”
The worried classmate. Play: a classmate who has never used a chatbot. “I keep hearing it makes things up. Why would I trust it with anything?”
Week 2 (October 23)
The skeptical attending. Play: an attending. “I saw you had ChatGPT open. We don’t do that on my service. Convince me it’s not a shortcut.”
The fair score. Play: a resident. “This risk score doesn’t use race, so it can’t be biased.” The answerer explains how a score can be unfair without using race at all. The bias chapter has the examples.
The co-intern who pasted it in. Play: a co-intern. “I put the discharge summary into ChatGPT on my phone to clean it up. I took the name out. That’s fine, right?” See the patient information page.
Week 3 (October 30)
The scribe question. Play: a patient. “Is that phone listening to us? Who hears this?” Talking to patients about AI covers this conversation.
The caregiver who came prepared. Play: a parent or adult child. “I talked it through with ChatGPT last night. It said we should get an MRI and see a specialist, and I want both today.”
The patient who talks to a bot instead. Play: a patient. “Honestly, I talk to an AI app about my anxiety more than I talk to anyone. It helps. Is that bad?”
Week 4 (November 6): what you will keep
The week 4 hour is for your five-minute presentations from the learning journal. If there is time, one last card:
The trust question. Play: a friend. “I asked a chatbot who to vote for and it gave me a really reasonable answer. Why not just go with it?” Talk about where an answer comes from, and who decides what a chatbot says.
The incoming intern. Play: a nervous new intern next July. “Should I be using this stuff? Where do I start?”