Generative AI for Academic Pediatricians: A New Era for Efficiency and Innovation

Monday, April 28, 2025

9:15am – 10:45am HST

Location: Convention Center: 302

CE: 1.5

Leader(s)

Traci Wolbrink, MD MPH (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Critical Care
Boston Children's hospital
ROSLINDALE, Massachusetts, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Jennifer Benjamin, MD, MS

Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Dennis Daniel, MD

Associate in Critical Care Medicine
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Rahul Damania, MD, MS Ed

Associate Staff, Pediatric Critical Care
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Brandon Hunter, MD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
Texas Children's Hospital, United States
Eric Gantwerker, MD, MMSc(MedEd), FACS, AFAMEE (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
Northwell Health
Huntington, New York, United States

Disclosure(s):

Traci Wolbrink, MD MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Jennifer Benjamin, MD, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Dennis Daniel, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Rahul Damania, MD, MS Ed: HyGuru (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role)

Brandon Hunter, MD: DM1 LLC (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); KidTech (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); Neotech Products (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee); XN Health (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant)

Eric Gantwerker, MD, MMSc(MedEd), FACS, AFAMEE: CSurgeries.com (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role, Intellectual Property including patent beneficiary and royalties); Level Ex, INC (Terminated, December 31, 2024) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds); MedEd Innovations, LLC (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role, Intellectual Property including patent beneficiary and royalties, Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds); Neural Lab, Inc (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee, Consultant, Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)

Workshop Description: Health professional educators (HPE) often struggle to balance clinical, educational and academic responsibilities. Generative AI (GenAI) tools can serve as powerful assistants to offload the labor required to develop learning activities. HPE need familiarity to utilize GenAI tools and gain understanding in their application in teaching, clinical, and scholarship responsibilities, and need to understand the limitations and inaccuracies due to the biased nature of the data used to train these models.

In this hands-on-skill workshop participants will be introduced to freely available GenAI tools, and will leave with high-quality prompting strategies and familiarity with GenAI tools through active practice. This workshop will start with a prompting primer that will provide necessary skills that can be applied across the breakout activities. This workshop aims to go beyond the basics, emphasizing how to improve prompting, and highlighting advanced GenAI tools that participants can directly apply in two 30-minute breakout hands-on-skill activities.

The four options for breakouts sessions allowing for application of prompt refining include:
1. Using GenAI as your personal assistant, examples include drafting emails, brainstorming ideas, creating teaching content and image generation using ChatGPT
2. Using GenAI for drafting lesson plans, podcasting and create interactive learning activities
3. Using GenAI to help with scholarship utilizing ‘Research Rabbit’ and Consensus to amplify scientific literature search, and accessing latest evidence based recommendations for patient care using Open evidence
4. Using GenAI to create custom GPT for teaching clinical management, examples include designing patient case simulations for managing clinical emergencies

Learning Objectives:

Create high-quality Generative AI prompts that can be used to assist with administrative activities, teaching, and research
Identify freely available Generative AI tools for application in academic contexts
Apply Generative AI tools to perform administrative tasks, enhance and amplify teaching activities, and assist with research endeavors