As a medical student, I used the dragon dictation software (no AI) to write notes in the ED and more recently I used a pilot of this ai version to write clinic notes.

Overall, I was quite impressed. It definitely made writing notes much faster, which all doctors hate to do. While it had some problems with where to put key pieces of information (like putting details from the physical exam back in the history), it only took 5 mins of rearrangement after the visit to complete the note.

For simple diagnoses, it does a decent job coming up with the assessment and plan, probably because all the simple diagnoses were in the training set. For more complex ones though, it needs to be exactly dictated by the doctor. I can see this being used very well in primary care.

Edit: When I said “coming up with an assessment and plan” I mean documenting the assessment and plan based on the ai’s recorded conversation with the patient. The conversation with the patient is meant to be understandable. The “assessment and plan” documentation on the other hand is jargony and meant to be read by other physicians.