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Prepare submissions in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, or RTF format, double-spaced, using a 12-point font, with italics (not underlining) for emphasis. All submissions must adhere to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work.
AI Consultation Reports should be prepared using the journal's Word template, available at https://www.medjournal.com/index.php/pub/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/1 .
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Understood — that's a different article type, and CARE doesn't fit it. The subject is the clinician's reasoning and the AI consultation; the patient is context. First person is the point, not a lapse.
I'd give it its own name rather than filing it under Case Reports. "AI Consultation Reports" says what it is and is searchable.
Title: AI Consultation Reports
Abbreviation: AICR
Word count limit: 2000
Section Policy:
This section publishes first-person accounts by clinicians of consulting a generative artificial intelligence tool during real patient care. The subject is the clinical encounter with the tool: what you were stuck on, what you asked, what it returned, what you did with it, and how it turned out.
Reports are written in the first person and follow this sequence: the clinical situation and the point at which you reached the limit of your own reasoning; the tool used, including version and date, and how you posed the question; what the tool returned, quoted or closely paraphrased; what you did with that output and why; the clinical outcome; and what you would do differently.
Accounts in which the tool was unhelpful, misleading, or confidently wrong are as welcome as accounts in which it helped, and the section will not be useful if only successes are submitted.
Patient details are limited to what the clinical question requires and must be de-identified. Where the patient remains identifiable from the account, written consent to publish is required. Authors must state whether identifiable patient information was entered into the tool and confirm the use complied with institutional and national data protection requirements.
Reports describe encounters that actually occurred. Constructed or illustrative examples are not accepted here.
Typical length is 800 to 1,500 words with an unstructured abstract. All submissions undergo peer review.
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