Practicing with AI

Hippo Education

Hippo Education Presents: Practicing with AI -- conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. Join Vicky Pittman, a practicing clinician, and Rob Taves, a technology expert, as they explore how AI is shaping clinical practice, medical education, and patient care—and what it means for clinicians at every stage of their journey. Explore more of Hippo's audio resources at hippoed.com/audio

Episodes

  1. EPISODE 1

    What Is AI (And Why Should Clinicians Care?)

    Welcome to Hippo Education's Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, join hosts Vicky Pittman, VP of Education and practicing PA, and Rob Taves, VP of Tech and tech expert, as they define AI, dive into how AI tech works, and provide practical tips for selecting and using AI tools.    Here are some prompt engineering guidelines we recommend using: Use clear roles: You might say something like: "You are a medical educator…  " for medical prompts.  On the other hand If you're looking for recipe advice, maybe go with "You are a world class chef". Give context: For example tell the LLM: "You're summarizing for a 2nd-year med student…", or perhaps "Target audience are doctors at a medical conference".   Ask for the format that serves you best in the response: do you want bullet points, tables, summaries, images, a slide presentation?  Don't assume the AI knows what you want Be iterative: Keep refining your prompt based on what you get back Use examples: Super easy, you can say "Similar to this: (and then include your example).  Remember that you can feed it images, documents and  websites, not just text. Visit speakpipe.com/hippoed to leave a voice message about anything related to AI and medicine: your excitement, your concerns, your own experiences with AI… anything. Your voice might even make it onto a future episode. Explore more of Hippo's audio resources at hippoed.com/audio

    29 min
  2. EPISODE 6

    Bias and Fairness

    Welcome to Hippo Education's Practicing with AI, conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. This month, Rob and Vicky address a common concern of clinicians when it comes to AI and medicine: bias and fairness. How might AI perpetuate health disparities that are rooted in bias? Or could AI help to mitigate bias in medicine? To learn more about this issue, Vicky interviews data journalist, author, and NYU professor Dr. Meredith Broussard on the topic of bias in technology. They explore how and why bias exists in technology and what can be done about it.    Visit speakpipe.com/hippoed to leave a voice message about anything related to AI and medicine: your excitement, your concerns, your own experiences with AI… anything. Your voice might even make it onto a future episode.    References:   1. Broussard M. More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. The MIT Press; 2023. 2. Broussard M. Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. The MIT Press; 2018.  3. Bhakta NR, et al. Race and Ethnicity in Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation: An Official American Thoracic Society Statement. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023;207(8):978-995. PMID: 36973004 4.  Liu M, et al. Early detection of sexually transmitted infections from skin lesions with deep learning: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Digit Health. 2025;7(7):100894. PMID: 40769792 5. Rao P. SCIN: A new resource for representative dermatology images. Google Research Blog. 2024. Available at:  https://research.google/blog/scin-a-new-resource-for-representative-dermatology-images/. Accessed on September 25, 2025. 6. The Monk Skintone Scale 7. Good Machine Learning Practice for Medical Device Development: Guiding Principles. US Food & Drug Administration. 2025. Available at:  https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/software-medical-device-samd/good-machine-learning-practice-medical-device-development-guiding-principles. Accessed on September 25, 2025.  8. Rickman S. Evaluating gender bias in large language models in long-term care. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2025;25(1):274. PMID: 40784946  9. Challapally A, Pease C, Raskar R, Chari P. The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025. MIT NANDA. 2025.  https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf

    46 min
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Hippo Education Presents: Practicing with AI -- conversations about medicine, AI, and the people navigating both. Join Vicky Pittman, a practicing clinician, and Rob Taves, a technology expert, as they explore how AI is shaping clinical practice, medical education, and patient care—and what it means for clinicians at every stage of their journey. Explore more of Hippo's audio resources at hippoed.com/audio