Artificial Intelligence for the Clinician Ep. 2: Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to our series on AI for the clinician! Large language models, like ChatGPT, have been taking the world by storm, and healthcare is no exception to that rule – your institution may already be using them! In this episode we’ll tackle the fundamentals of how they work and their applications and limitations to keep you up to date on this fast-moving, exciting technology.

Hosts:
Ayman Ali, MD
Ayman Ali is a Behind the Knife fellow and general surgery PGY-3 at Duke Hospital in his academic development time where he focuses on data science, artificial intelligence, and surgery.

Ruchi Thanawala, MD: @Ruchi_TJ
Ruchi Thanawala is an Assistant Professor of Informatics and Thoracic Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and founder of Firefly, an AI-driven platform that is built for competency-based medical education. In addition, she directs the Surgical Data and Decision Sciences Lab for the Department of Surgery at OHSU.

Phillip Jenkins, MD: @PhilJenkinsMD
Phil Jenkins is a general surgery PGY-3 at Oregon Health and Science University and a National Library of Medicine Post-Doctoral fellow pursuing a master’s in clinical informatics.

Steven Bedrick, PhD: @stevenbedrick
Steven Bedrick is a machine learning researcher and an Associate Professor in Oregon Health and Science University’s Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology.

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1:00.7	and dominate the day. Hey all, I'm I'm an Ali. I'm one of the behind-the-knife fellows. Welcome
1:06.0	back to our series on artificial intelligence and medicine, where we break down exactly what you
1:10.6	need to know
1:11.2	as a clinician. Today I'm joined with a couple of guests from Oregon Health and Science University.
1:17.1	First is Phil Jenkins. He's a general surgery resident and a National Library of Medicine
1:21.8	postdoctoral fellow who's pursuing his master's in clinical informatics. Welcome, Phil.
1:26.8	Thanks for having me. And for faculty,
1:30.6	we're joined by Dr. Rucci, Theranalo, a thoracic surgeon with a background in AI and informatics.
1:36.7	Dr. Thanah, welcome back to the podcast. Hey, I'm in. I'm very excited to be back on Behind the Knife
1:42.1	with you, and I'm really looking forward to the conversation discussion today.
1:46.1	And lastly, we are also joined by Dr. Stephen Bedrick, an associate professor of biomedical informatics and machine learning researcher.
1:54.1	Thanks so much for having me. It's a real pleasure to be here talking with y'all.
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