Working with AI tools
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This branch covers the practical use of AI in medical writing, divided by task: finding tools for the workflow, prompting, reviewing literature, evaluating output, generating images, and drafting regulatory documents. System types, organisational adoption, responsible use, legal requirements, and attitudes to AI belong to their own branches.
- AI tools across the writing workflow — the kinds of tools available at each phase and how much work each takes on
- Prompting a language model — assembling and refining instructions, reusing prompts, and managing consistency across models and runs
- AI-assisted literature review — support for search, screening, extraction, appraisal, and summaries, with checks and review platforms
- Evaluating AI output in medical writing — errors, training limits, task performance, traceability, and the judgement and checking an output needs
- Generating images with AI — how generators work, their uses and selection, and the limits of graphical abstracts and scientific accuracy
- Drafting regulatory documents with AI authoring tools — allocating work between writer and tool, staged drafting, rules and thresholds, stated criteria and limits, and output checks