Tutorial: your first fifteen minutes with an AI tool

What you will need

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. A laptop or tablet, fifteen quiet minutes, and a willingness to be slightly surprised. You do not need to install anything.

Step one — open a tool

Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt. Open the AI tool your organisation has approved. If you do not have an approved tool, do this tutorial with a fictional patient on a free public tool to learn the interface — and switch to the approved tool before you do any real clinical work.

Step two — start with a friendly task

Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud. Type something low-stakes first, so the interface stops feeling foreign. For example:

Read the answer carefully. Notice the tone. Notice anything that you would phrase differently.

Step three — try a small clinical drafting task

Duis aute irure dolor. Now try a tiny piece of clinical drafting — still about a fictional patient.

Step four — try one thing that should make you cautious

Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat. Ask the tool a question where a wrong answer matters — for example, a drug dose. Look up the same question in your usual reference. Compare. You will see that AI tools sound equally confident whether they are right or wrong. This is the single most important habit to build: verify anything that affects care.

What you have learned

Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas. After fifteen minutes you have a mental model: “Useful for drafting, explaining, and summarising. Not a substitute for verifying.” Everything else on this site builds on that.