AI FOR OBGYN - An Introduction
A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Patients | ObGyn Intelligence
I Have Been Using AI and especially Claude Every Day in My Practice. Here Is What I Have Learned.
Why I am starting this series, who it is for, and what you will get if you subscribe.
I am an ObGyn professor and maternal-fetal medicine specialist. I have spent over 30 years reading medical literature, teaching residents, and trying to close the gap between what the evidence shows and what actually happens in clinical practice. I was the very first to publish a peer reviewed article on the use of AI in ObGyn in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
About a year ago, I started using Claude -- the AI assistant made by Anthropic -- seriously. Not casually. Every day, for real clinical tasks. Summarizing journal articles before morning rounds. Writing patient handouts. Preparing for difficult conversations. Drafting manuscripts. Reviewing evidence before teaching sessions.
What I found surprised me. Not because Claude is magic. It is not. But because used correctly, it changes how much you can get done and how good the output is. The gap between using AI poorly and using it well is enormous -- and almost nobody is teaching clinicians or patients how to cross it.
That is why I am starting this series.
What AI for ObGyn is
This is a twice-weekly newsletter -- every Tuesday and Thursday -- focused entirely on practical AI use for ObGyn clinicians and for patients navigating ObGyn care.
Every issue covers one task. I show you exactly what to type, what to expect, and where AI helps and where it falls short. No theory. No hype. No ‘AI will transform medicine’ abstraction. Just: here is what I do, here is the prompt, here is what comes back, here is how I use it.
Each issue has two sections: one for clinicians, one for patients. Same topic, different language. Because the patients sitting in my waiting room deserve the same access to these tools as the residents I teach.
Who this is for
For clinicians: ObGyns, residents, midwives, nurse practitioners, patients, anyone in women’s health who wants to work smarter without sacrificing rigor. You do not need any technical background. If you can type a question into Google, you can do everything in this series.
For patients: anyone navigating pregnancy, fertility, menopause, or gynecologic care who wants to understand more, prepare better, and arrive at appointments ready to have real conversations with their doctor.
What free subscribers get
Every issue is partially free. The introduction, the problem, the context -- enough to understand what we are covering and why it matters. Free subscribers also get the full list of resources, links, and references.
What paid subscribers get
The actual how-to. The prompts. The step-by-step instructions. The patient section. The specific guidance that takes something from interesting to immediately usable.
This is not a paywall for the sake of it. It is a filter. The people who invest in this series are the people who will actually use it. That is who I am writing for.
Here is what is coming in the first two weeks:
What is Claude and why should ObGyns and their patients care? How it is different from Google, ChatGPT, and every other tool you have tried.
Setting up Claude the right way. Free vs paid, Projects, and the exact instructions I put in my own Project to make Claude useful for clinical work from the first conversation.
How to talk to Claude. The prompting principles that separate a generic answer from a clinically useful one -- with ObGyn-specific examples.
Your first real task. For clinicians: summarize a journal article in 60 seconds. For patients: understand a medical document or test result without waiting for your next appointment.
The official Anthropic video tutorials -- all 26 of them, curated and annotated for ObGyn use. Most clinicians do not know these exist.
One thing I want to say before we start
Claude is not a doctor. It does not replace clinical judgment. It does not replace your physician. I will say this in every issue because it is true and because it matters.
What it replaces is the friction. The time it takes to read a paper you do not have time to read. The words you cannot find when a patient asks a question you know the answer to but cannot explain simply. The blank page when you sit down to write something that should take 20 minutes and takes two hours.
That is what this series is about. Using a powerful tool well, in the service of better care.
I am glad you are here. Let’s get started.
-- Amos Grunebaum, MD
Professor of ObGyn and Maternal-Fetal Medicine
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