Priya's Thursday, two ways
8 lessons · 24 prompts
A day in the life of a Surgeon: what changes with these prompts.
Track progress as a memberPriya, a general surgeon at a community hospital
Priya's Thursday starts with a clinic list of fourteen patients, most of them waiting for gallbladder surgery. Before the first one arrives, she opens ChatGPT and pastes the explanation she has given a hundred times, then asks for a plain-language version with a short list of warning signs. She prints six copies and hands them out as she goes.
Between two laparoscopic cholecystectomies, she dictates her bullet points into Claude and asks for a first draft of the operative note. It comes back organized and close, and she fixes two details about the trocar placement before signing off.
At four o'clock she has a briefing for tomorrow's list, which includes a hernia repair and a patient with a raised BMI. She asks Gemini for a short structure for the handoff and adds her own notes about the anaesthetic concerns. The briefing finishes in fifteen minutes instead of half an hour.
She leaves at six rather than eight, picks up her daughter from practice, and cooks dinner without a laptop on the counter. The notes are done, the patients have something in writing, and the evening is hers.
Before
- Notes written late at night
- Same explanations, over and over
- Consent talks squeezed between cases
- Handoffs rushed in the corridor
After this course
- Notes drafted before you leave
- Plain-language handouts ready to print
- Briefings that finish on time
- Evenings back with your family
What you'll learn
- Patient Explanations: Turn a surgical plan into clear words a patient and their family can follow at home.
- Documentation Drafts: Produce faster first drafts of histories, operative notes, and discharge summaries.
- Preoperative Planning: Build a thorough plan and checklist before the patient reaches the operating room.
- Team Briefings: Prepare talking points for briefings, handoffs, and debriefs that run on time.
- Diagnostic Reasoning: Organize findings into a structured differential for your own review and case presentation.
- Postoperative Plans: Create post-op care plans with warning signs and follow-up schedules patients understand.
- Consent Conversations: Prepare consent discussions and risk explanations that patients can act on.
- Learning and Improvement: Turn cases and guidelines into learning points and improvement plans for your practice.
How this course works
- 8 lessonsOne task of your job each, from explaining surgery to patients to quality improvement and learning.
- Ready-to-paste promptsCopy, fill in the parts in {{brackets}}, paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
- Tick and completeTick the prompts you tried and mark each lesson complete.
- Get certifiedFinish and keep the prompts as your own library.