AI Literacy for Physicians: A Practical Curriculum

AI Literacy for PhysiciansStop typing questions into AI and hoping for good answers. This book turns you into the physician who designs AI behavior, builds persistent workflows, and supervises intelligent systems the way an attending leads a team. It’s the hands-on guide that lets you start using AI effectively on Monday morning.Written by Dr. Luis Daniel Lugo, founding internal medicine residency program director, APDIM Councilor, and holder of executive certificates in agentic AI from MIT Professional Education and Johns Hopkins, the book is built from real operational experience: clinical scheduling, correspondence, scholarly workflows, curriculum development, and the hard lessons of what actually works.What You Will LearnHow AI truly works and critical safety boundaries (beyond the hype)The CRAFT framework: a repeatable system for consistently better outputsConversation mastery: iteration, batch processing, and persistent toolsMulti-document synthesis and accurate citation verification for researchPersonalizing AI so it knows your style and stops treating you like a strangerEnd-to-end workflow design and agent supervisionDesktop AI, coding with AI, and strategies to stay current in a fast-changing fieldOrganized for How Physicians Actually ReadSeven chapters build sequentially from foundations to advanced systems. Includes an OpenEvidence mini-chapter on BAA-aware clinical education. Appendix A delivers copy-paste prompts, decision flowcharts, and a vendor landscape. Chapters 1–2 give you immediate value; add the rest as needed.This is Dr. Lugo's third book, after two Amazon Top 100 bestsellers (Top 10 IM Diagnosis and PGY-1 Excellence, the latter recognized in the U.S. Congressional Record). Same direct, mentor-to-mentee voice. Same goal.For physicians, residents, students, and medical educators ready to lead instead of wait. Read more