Guide to Leverage LLMs for AAMC Resources

As medical education evolves, institutions have an opportunity to responsibly integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their selection processes, guided by the AAMC's comprehensive resources. AI platforms like Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), and NotebookLM (Google) can help you explore, understand, and implement these resources effectively. These platforms (also called large language models, or LLMs) serve as powerful tools for working with AAMC materials.

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Once you upload AAMC documents to these AI platforms, they can enhance your work in several ways:

Quality assurance and verification. AI platforms can distinguish between official AAMC guidance and their own interpretations by providing specific citations, enabling you to verify information against source documents and helping to identify potential AI-generated inaccuracies — sometimes called "hallucinations" in AI terminology.

Quick information summary. AI platforms can quickly read through multiple AAMC documents, saving you valuable time while helping you find relevant details that address your specific needs.

Better understanding. You can ask AI platforms to gather information from AAMC resources that home in on complex ideas, not only summarizing that information but then explaining those ideas in simpler terms.

Finding connections. AI platforms excel at detecting patterns and connections across AAMC resources, revealing important themes and relationships you might otherwise miss.

Planning help. AI platforms can help create customized, step-by-step implementation strategies that align AAMC guidelines with your program's unique, specific goals.

Even with these best practices in place, remember that AI platforms can still generate hallucinated or inaccurate information, so always verify responses.

Note: This guide shows you how to use AI platforms to understand and implement AAMC AI resources and guidelines. For guidance on evaluating or selecting applicants, please refer directly to the AAMC's official documentation and your program's policies.

Before you begin, we recommend:

1. Get and review your program's AI usage policies.
2. Download these key AAMC resources:
   • Principles for Responsible AI in Medical School and Residency Selection.
   • Institutional Readiness Guide: A tool to check if you are ready to implement AI.
   • Essential AI Terms and Definitions: A guide to help you understand AI concepts.
   • Vendor Evaluation Guide: How to evaluate AI vendors.

AI tools change quickly, but these tips for working with them stay valuable:

1. Learn What the Model Can Do
2. Write Better Questions
3. Ask for Evidence-Based Answers
4. Give Clear Background Information
5. Think About Privacy

Each section includes example questions and conversations showing effective ways to work with AI platforms. You can adapt these examples to fit your program's specific needs.