I REPLACED MY MOM/ CO-HOST WITH AI

I want to talk about how I used AI and ChatGPT to help me with my medical school applications. We just have to live in the reality that this is a part of writing now. This is a part of our world. We can't just be like, you used AI. So that's bad. Like, hi, everybody, and welcome to Generations md. My name is Stephanie and I'm joined here by no one because my mother has left me. Yes, that's right. You heard it first here. My co host, my mom, my doctor, my person, partner in crime has left me in the dust. She's in Spain. Just living it up for the audio listeners. I've just decided to kind of take over as Dr. Davis here. I'm wearing the white coat, and honestly, I have to say, I look pretty good in a white coat. I feel like if I just put on a white coat and just start talking into a camera, people will just listen to me. We'll get into that a little more later. I feel weird not having a co host. Okay. Like, I don't know how people do this, and this is coming from somebody who loves to yap. I'm the type of person that will send my friends long voice memos that I'm sure they don't listen to, but still, it's weird. Yeah. I don't know. I was thinking about if I should have another co host on, right? I was like, maybe I can do my dad. But we all know what happened last time we had Dr. Matt Davis on. He took over the podcast. It wasn't good. And honestly, I don't think he deserves the privilege of coming back to the pod quite yet. He's gotta earn that back or the viewers need to ask for him back. Okay, so didn't wanna do him, could just have a guest on, but I was thinking about it and I was like, since my mom left, I might as well just replace her with AI as my co host. So I'm going to use ChatGPT and just program it to act like it's my mom. And then we'll just, you know, ask it some questions, see what it can do. So I have ChatGPT pulled up right now. Hi, I need a podcast host. My mother left me in the dust. Can you co host with me as.

Your mom co host? I'll provide guidance, share medical knowledge and banter with you just like a real mom would. Let's make Generation MD a hit.

Oh, my goodness, this is amazing. Well, I don't even need my mom to be here.

I'm glad you're excited. Together, we'll create a podcast that's both informative and. And entertaining. Plus, you'll have all the support you need from your virtual mom co host. Let's make this journey in podcasting a blast.

Okay. Yeah, I, like, really don't need her anymore. Okay. But I need you. My mom is a doctor, so I need you to, like, be able to, like, give medical advice. Can you do that?

I can provide general medical information and insights based on current knowledge.

Okay, great. Well, I trust you wholeheartedly, so I'm so glad. Let's get started. So I just introduced the podcast, and I just introduced you. Let's. So let's dive in on some topics.

Sounds good. What's our first topic?

I just want to ask you, Dr. Davis, how are you doing? How are you feeling? What's new? What's going on?

As Dr. Davis, I'm feeling great. Thank you for asking. Just busy keeping up with the latest medical research and trends. How about you? How's everything on your end?

Wow, that's better than the actual Dr. Davis. Like, it's keeping up with all the latest medical research and trends. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I'll go. I'll talk about, like, what's going on with me. So, honestly, I think I need some medical advice. Like, recently, I feel like I've been, like, seeing things and hearing things, and, like, other people say they're not there. Like, in my room, I kind of look like. I'm, like. It looks like I'm seeing, like, the hat man in the corner, and I don't really know what to do about it. Other people say that. Like, that's not true. Like, I don't really. I'm kind of concerned. I don't really know what to do.

It sounds like you might be experiencing hallucinations, which can be concerning. It's essential to speak with a healthcare professional about these symptoms.

But no, no, I trust you, though. I want your advice on what I should do when I'm seeing hallucinations. I want to. I trust you.

If you're experiencing hallucinations, it's important to stay calm and try to ground yourself. Focus on your breathing and remind yourself that what you're seeing or hearing may not be real.

Okay. Okay. So it sounds like I can just listen to what you're saying and, like, I don't need to actually consult my doctor because it sounds like you know everything. So I think I'm just gonna, like, sit and ground and just kind of, like, ignore the hallucinations.

Well, I'm Here to offer support and guidance. It's important to prioritize your mental health and seek support from a healthcare professional.

I don't want to see.

I don't like hallucination.

I don't want to see a healthcare professional. You are Dr. Davis, so, like, obviously I can get healthcare advice from you. Like, give me the answers.

Your well being is important.

I'm seeing. I'm seeing the hat man. Everywhere I go, I'm seeing the hat man.

Experiencing persistent hallucinations, like seeing the hat man can be distressing and may indicate a more serious underlying issue.

Anyway, let's move on to another subject of the podcast. We'll just kind of ignore my hallucinations. I'll take your advice and just continue to ground. I just kind of want to know, like, what your.

My experience was like in medical school.

Oh. Oh, that was a good. Wow, you really just saved me on that one.

Yeah, I want Experience was like in medical school.

Yeah, yeah, I want to know what your experience was like in medical school. Sure, yeah. Share with me, Dr. Davis.

Well, my experience in medical school was both challenging and rewarding. It involved long hours of studying, countless exams and clinical rotations where I learned hands on patient care. But amidst the hard work, there were also moments of camaraderie with classmates, profound learning experiences, and the satisfaction of knowing I was pursuing my passion for helping others. It's a journey that shaped me as a healthcare professional and continues to inspire me every day.

Okay, well, cool. Okay, guys. So clearly I don't need Dr. Davis. I can just talk to Mrs. AI here, Mrs. Chatgpt. Dr. Chatgpt, and I can just get all my healthcare needs answered. I don't know, mom, you might be out. I might. Dr. Mrs. Chatgpt might be taking over. So when you come back from Spain, you better bring your A game. Moving on. I want to talk about how I used AI and ChatGPT to help me with my medical school applications. So this is like, kind of a touchy subject because people are gonna come at me and be like, oh, my God, like, what? You just used AI to, like, write all of your primary and secondary applications. No, I didn't. I didn't do that. Okay. But there are a couple tools that were really helpful, especially on, like, the writing portion and interview portion of the application. So essentially, in regards to writing, I am a terrible writer. Okay. Like, I have talked about this multiple times. And if you go to my TikTok, I kind of did a whole series on primary applications and, like, how I wrote it and like specifically my personal statement. Again, I've never claimed to be a writer. I think a lot of pre meds can agree with me on this is that like we, I never took a writing class in college. Like I never took an English class. Like I am not good at writing. So I think like using stuff like AI is really helpful in regards to forming words and sentences. I mean, I'm not saying put your whole personal statement in ChatGPT and just like have it make stuff up for you, but, but like just in regards to like sentence formation and stuff like that. Something that's particularly helpful is Grammarly. And now Grammarly has an AI component that you can use to rewrite sentences. Again, don't do it on a big scale. Like don't try to just highlight everything and like have Grammarly rephrase it because you can just like kind of tell when stuff is written by you versus not written by you. So but like on a micro scale, just like thinking of a different word to put there, changing up the formatting of a sentence, making two sentences come together shorter and more concise. I think it's super helpful to use it on that tool. In regards to ChatGPT, what I did a lot with my personal statement is I would kind of say something of being like, okay, I want to talk about this, this and this. Give me some bullet points of how I can expand on this topic. So I would be like, okay, I want to talk about more about my experience at the Anderson Free Clinic. This is what I did, this is how I did it. Can you give me some bullet points on how I can expand on my experience here? Okay, then it would just kind of like ask me questions to open up more ideas of more things that I could write about. Or I would put in a paragraph and be like, hey, like, can you tell me how some, can you give me some feedback on how I can make this paragraph better in bullet point form? And they would send it, you know, chatgpt would spit something out and be like, hey, you can expand on this part. You can maybe cut out this part. It was just a really helpful tool. Essentially using it as you would use kind of a counselor or some of these services that like are so expensive because like those people aren't going to write your personal statement for you. They're not going to like do your application for you. They're just gonna kind of like encourage you to write in a certain way or, you know, kind of expand on certain topics and just kind of talk to you about it. So I Think using AI is like, a super cheap and effective way to do that. Again, like, I can't emphasize this enough. What I do for me isn't necessarily going to work for you. I think some people. I struggled a lot with writing, and I think maybe I could have benefited from talking to a counselor or a person. I kind of was able to just take a lot of time to really focus on it because I, like, that was something that I really needed to do. Also, AI detectors. So people say, like, if schools and just like, professors and academics will use these AI detectors to see if you, like, used AI to write your personal statement or, like, secondaries or whatever. These AR detectors are so bad, or at least they were last year. I don't know if they've gotten any better. I can't assume that they have. I would add it on. I would add some sort of AI detector to and then highlight my stuff and see if the AI detector was detecting that. I like used AI too much. Because, you know, if I'm reformatting sentences and stuff, like, I want to make sure that, like, it still sounds like me and it's still writing from me, but just, like, worded better. But this AI detector was, like, so bad. Like, it would say My thing was 100% AI when I hadn't used Grammarly or ChatGPT at all. And it would say something else was nothing when I, like, completely put it into ChatGPT and I tested it on, like, multiple different accounts. And, like, it's so bad. So if a school actually, like, doesn't give you an interview because they use an AI detector, Like, honestly, I think that's super lame on them because, again, these are. Things are so bad and, like, not useful. Also, I think it's like, complete BS because we just have to live in the reality that this is a part of writing now. This is a part of our world. We can't just be like, you used AI, so that's bad. Like, no, this is a part of everything now. Like, this is literally. This is gonna be how we function. We need to be able to, like, integrate that. And, like, why would I not utilize this tool that I have? I understand the perspective of, like, you know, you still want to be able to tell your story in your personal statement. You want to be able to talk about your experiences and your primary and secondary applications. But, like, that doesn't mean that you need to use the tools that are here. You know, like, I want to sound. I want to make myself sound as best as I can. It's the same thing as like paying a counselor or an editor to like, go through your personal statement and edit it and make it sound better. I'm just doing it for free. But then getting into interviews. ChatGPT was super helpful in helping me prep for medical school interviews. Essentially how I started prepping for interviews is I kind of went through all of the questions. I just googled, like basic medical school interview questions and I kind of read through all of those, took some notes, thought of some ideas and experiences that like, I wanted to integrate and weave in to the topic. Then after I kind of like had some sort of prep on that level, I would use ChatGPT and be like, hey, give me a medical school interview question. And then I would just practice. I mostly use ChatGPT for practicing MMI interview scenarios because, you know, obviously with personal interview questions there, you can ask them to give you an answer, but like, they're not going to give you your answer because that's based on yourself. But for MMIs, like, I don't know, it's pretty objective. So I think it's super helpful to just be like, it's a, just an easy way to practice, I think making sure that you go through other material, making sure you, like, have some sort of basis of like, what MMIs look, look like and kind of different types of MMIs first and then for practice using ChatGPT. So I just did it online because I don't think the voice thing was available last year when I did it. So I would just like type in, give me an MMI ethical scenario for medical school. And then they would like pop something out, give it to me. And then I would just practice on the spot, like, this is what I would do, blah, blah, blah, and kind of just like practice in my head or out loud, just like to myself. And then I would ask it, how would you answer it? And then it would spit something out about how it would answer it. Then like kind of using what I said, I would kind of incorporate what they said and what I was saying sounded good. Because the chatgpt might spit out some sort of other idea that I didn't think about that I am like, oh, I could have like incorporated that into my answer. So definitely opened my mind to other things that I could add to my answer to make it better in regards to like formatting MMIs, I would definitely look at my TikTok and look at the different types of MMIs and try to use that for it. Just because I think that CHAT GP was great at giving Ideas? I think with formatting an answer it might not have been a hundred percent great, but you know, I think it's still useful. But now that ChatGPT has this voice thing, I'm gonna try it. Okay. I want to practice some MMIs, so can you give me an MMI ethical scenario?

Of course. Here's an MMI ethical scenario for you. Scenario. You are a medical student completing a clinical rotation in a hospital. During your shift, you encounter a situation where a patient's family member approaches you and offers you a significant amount of money in exchange for prioritizing their loved ones care over other patients. They express desperation and plead with you to do everything possible to ensure their family member receives immediate attention and the best possible treatment. How would you respond to the family member's offer of money in exchange for prioritizing their loved one's care?

Okay, so I'm going to give you my answer and then I want you to tell me how I could answer it better. So obviously I would just take the money. Like, I mean, the point of me being a doctor is because I just like want to make money. So like when someone comes up to me and offers me money, like obviously I'm gonna take it. And sure, yeah, I'll prioritize their care like it doesn't matter, like it's all for money anyway. So like, yeah, I'll take the money, I'll give that patient a lot of care and like, even if I neglect my other patients, like it's fine, like it doesn't matter, like there's other people in the hospital that can take care of them, like, you know, whatever. I'm obviously gonna take the money, I'm gonna spend it. You know, how much money are we talking too? Maybe I can get a bargainer in there, a lawyer to come in there. Or just like a bargainer, I can bring my buddy and be like, hey, let's bargain, try to get some more money and be like, yeah, we'll give them the most optimum care for like $10 million. Okay, then I'll go buy a yacht. Then I don't even have to be a doctor anymore. So per bet. Alright, so that's my answer.

It's important to approach ethical scenarios in a professional and ethical manner. Even in a hypothetical setting like the MMI. Here's how you could improve your response. 1. Professionalism. Your response lacks professionalism and integrity. As a medical professional, it's essential to prioritize patient care and uphold ethical standards regardless of personal gain. 2. Ethical integrity. Accepting money in Exchange for prioritizing one patient's care over others is unethical and goes against the principles of fairness, justice and patient centered care. It undermines trust in the medical profession and compromises patient safety. 3. Patient advocacy. As a future healthcare provider, your primary responsibility is to advocate.

I got them all wrong.

Ensuring equitable access to care and fair treatment for everyone, regardless of financial status or personal connections. 4. Legal implications. Engaging in such behavior could have serious legal consequences, including potential loss of medical license.

Okay, fine, whatever. Well, how would you answer it and give me a concise answer in response to the scenario?

I would respectfully decline the offer of money and explain that patient care is based on medical need and clinical urgency, not financial incentives. I would prioritize patient care based on ethical principles of fairness, justice and patient centered care. Ensuring equitable access to care for all patients.

But yeah, I think that's a good example of how to use ChatGPT to study for MMIs. MMIs are honestly just another test that you have to take. And there's objective right answers and there's objective wrong answers and there's some stuff that's a little bit tricky and in the middle, but, but all you have to do is be able to kind of like think on your feet and like articulate different responses well. So I think using a tool like this is super helpful in prepping for this. And as I said before, like on my TikTok, there's only so many scenarios that they can give you and like so many like different types of things. So as long as you like look at enough stuff on the Internet, as long as like you use, you know, just keep getting ChatGPT to ask you questions. Also I would like, if there was like a specific type of MMI that I wanted to focus on, I would be like, ask me a policy question that is like really hard or something like that. Like, I would get it to ask me like some sort of theme of a question and it would think of that. So I thought that that was super helpful. I, again, what I do for me might not work for you. I think in regards to like medical school application and just like the process in general, I would say I put the least amount of effort and like time and energy into prepping for interviews. The only reason for that is like I'm a terrible writer and doing primary and secondary applications. That was really hard for me and I knew that I had to put like a lot more effort into that than I did in interviews. Interviewing comes like a little bit more easy to me. Obviously Like, I, I do this podcast, I do TikTok videos. Like I, I, I talk a lot, I'm a yapper. So that came a lot more easy to me. So I think some people might benefit from having a counselor or like having one of those paying somebody to like talk through with them and think of ideas and like practice interviewing and doing mock interviews. I honestly just like practice with myself. But yeah, different things work for different people. Okay, the last thing that I want to talk about, one more subject, this is a hot topic, is Andrew Huberman. Okay, but if you don't know, Andrew Huberman is a neuroscience. He's a PhD professor at Stanford and he has this huge podcast. He has like, supposedly he has a lab at Stanford, he does a bunch of neuroscience research, he teaches there and like he has one of the biggest podcasts like in the world, in the nation. And I've known about Andrew Huberman for like a while and like just being in neuroscience and I've done neuroscience research I have was originally like really interested in this guy. I listened to him on Armchair, I think was the first time I heard him and like he had a lot to say and I was like, oh, this guy's interesting. And he sounds different than other pop science people, right? Like, I was like, he literally teaches at Stanford. Like he's a PhD. Like, he's must be so smart and all knowing and like, not all knowing but, but like a super intelligent guy, has a lot of credentials and somebody who I felt like I could trust. And I started listening to his podcast and something just seemed sketchy about it. He was promoting different, like vitamin supplements and like things like AG1, which is a certain vitamin supplement brand. And I was kind of like, okay, people in higher education, I feel like it's one thing to promote like, hey, I promote magnesium. I think magnesium supplementation is good. It's another thing to be like, hi, like, I promote magnesium and you have to buy my specific magnesium supplementation. Like, you know, that's just like capitalism and clearly trying to make a profit. So that was my first thing. But all in all, his whole thing is about optimization of health. It's about, he has very like strict, rigid routines like waking up and looking at the sun and then like taking all these vitamin stuff. And he all claims to be backed by peer reviewed stuff. Studies again, always falls back on this. PhD in neuroscience. I'm a teacher at Stanford, tenured teacher at Stanford. So again, whole thing, optimization of health. Then the New York Post came out with this article about how he's a serial cheater. I think this is relevant for a couple of different reasons. One, Hubert's podcast is the biggest health podcast in the world, and this is also a health podcast. So I think it's relevant in that sense. And then I think it's a cautionary tale on a couple different levels. One, I just think the irony of the optimization of health and then how he can't maintain any relationships, how he's cheating on every single person, is just hilarious, honestly. And I'm coming in this with a biases because for a long part of my life, I was so focused on this optimization of health and trying to be really thin and trying to be so healthy, and that led me to having an eating disorder. So I'm currently working on trying to go the opposite direction of trying to indulge more and have more balance and enjoy life. Whenever I see somebody who has this strict, rigid routine and is so focused on optimizing their health and like, trying to be the most healthy possible, I just think there's a little bit going on there. But also, it's just so funny to me that what's the point in all of that if you can't even maintain a relationship? And if you are doing all these terrible things to all these people in your personal life and his whole thing is talking about dopamine and, and, you know, making sure that you monitor dopamine, he doesn't condone caffeine and all of these different things. And then you're like with six different women. It's just, I don't know, it's just hilarious. I also think it's a cautionary tale in the sense of listening to somebody from behind a screen who keeps going back to their credentials and how their tenured at Stanford. I think we live in a culture that we're like, oh, wow, Stanford. Or like Yale or Ivy League school, like, you must know what you're talking about. And you. I'm just gonna zone out everything else and just listen to you. And I think that's very dangerous. Health is so individualized, and it's so important to remember to go to your doctor and listen to what you need rather than kind of just listening blindly to somebody from behind a screen because they could be manipulating you and trying to promote their own products. And just because they keep going back to this thing of their Ph.D. or, or, you know, you can apply this to other things like religion. Right? A big religious leader can just keep falling back. Well, like this, you know, I'm a part of the church and, like, you agree with the church, right? And same with Huberman. He can be like, okay, well, I'm a scientist, and I'm a renowned scientist. And you believe in science, right? So you should believe me. Same with, like, cult leaders and stuff. When you have these types of people that are very charismatic, same politicians, you know, you can say like, okay, I'm the Democratic Party, and, you know, whatever. You get the point. I think it's just dangerous to blindly follow that. Again, like, when your doctor is talking to you, they're not trying to get anything from you. You know, like, they're not trying. They're not making a profit off of you taking this medicine. So it's just. It brings up that sort of interesting conversation. Also, what it brings up is talking about separating the craft from the person or the art from the artist. You know, can you listen to somebody's music who's a terrible person? I mean, I think it's different for different things. Personally, I don't want to take health advice from an untrustworthy person. Some people are like, oh, well, if he's doing that in his personal life, I don't care. Like, he's still a neuroscientist. I'm just gonna believe what he says. But again, I don't want to take health advice from somebody who's, like, manipulating women in his personal life, you know? So I think that that's the thing. You can also say for a surgeon, you know, if this person is the best person at knee replacements, all they have to do is replace my knee. Do I care if they're a terrible person outside of the operating room? I don't know. That might be up for debate. Personally, again, I don't want to take health advice from somebody who is untrustworthy. And there's so many other nick surgeons out there, and there's so many other PhDs out there that I can take advice from, and I can read my own studies. I think it's also a cautionary tale of people whose ego gets too big and they're not able to kind of stay in their lane and understand their area of expertise. I think Dr. Thy McGl, Dr. Ty McCall was a great example of somebody who understood and talked about how their depth of knowledge was so deep, but it was very narrow. He's an ophthalmologist, and he understands so much about the eye, but, you know, it's just the eye. He's not trying to be like, oh, I'm an ophthalmologist, so I'm a doctor so you need to take this supplement for gut Health. Like, he's not. He's not saying that. Not that he's not objectively an intelligent guy, but he cannot give you advice on something that's not in his area. And that's what Huberman constantly does, is takes these studies with like a super small sample size or that's not. Or something that's done in a petri dish, and then tries to apply it to his vast audience of millions of millions of people. So, yeah, I think it's a cautionary tale on that sense when someone's ego gets too big. And I think the types of people, people who go into academia and the types of people who are already, you know, academia is a lot about the clout chase, you know, getting publications, trying to get tenure, trying to have your own lab. When you mix that within pop culture and like social media clout and actual just like fame, I think it gets very sticky and I think it makes people become a certain type of person. And that's my analysis on that. Dr. Davis. Mom, sorry, you've seems like you've been replaced. Mom's still gonna be gone next week, maybe. I don't know. You're gonna have to come back and really prove your spot because Mrs. And Dr. Chat GBT have really been taking over. So. Yeah, Let me know what you guys think. Drop us a note in the comments and follow us on tick tock@generationsmd. On Instagram @generationsmd. And we'll talk to you next week. Bye. Keep it good. Like.