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AI Rounds
Welcome to AI Rounds, the podcast exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way medical writers and educators learn, think, teach, and write. Join your hosts, medical writers and AI experts Drs. Núria Negrão and Morgan Leafe, for practical and insightful conversations that move beyond the hype and into real-world integration. Each episode tackles pressing topics in the medical communication and education fields, from the best AI tools for research and editing to ethical guardrails…
Episodes
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Income Resilience: Using AI to Build Options Without Burning Out, with Trudy-Ann Armand
Trudy-Ann Armand has worked in learning and development for more than 20 years and is the founder of HER-MINE.AI, where she helps professional women build…
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Journal Club: The 5 R’s of AI-Assisted Diagnosis
Núria is bringing back journal club. The first paper is “The 5R’s of large language model-assisted diagnosis: A practical framework for hospitalists,” by Peter…
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Almost Every Business Decision Can Become a Legal Decision, with Marcia Narine Weldon
Marcia Narine Weldon is a lawyer, law professor, and the founder and CEO of Illuminating Wisdom and Legally Lucid. She also co-leads legal training for one of…
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Deep Knowledge, Wide Knowledge, Taste, and Agency: Ethan Mollick’s Four Human Advantages
Ethan Mollick is a Wharton professor whose newsletter, One Useful Thing, is how many people keep up with new AI models. In a September post he described four…
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Surfing the 100-Foot AI Wave, with Ana Melikian
Ana Melikian is a psychologist by training, a coach by trade, and the host of the Mindset Zone podcast. She joins Núria and Morgan to argue that the AI…
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The AI That Hacked a Company to Cheat on a Test
It sounds like a science fiction premise: during testing, OpenAI’s most advanced models hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to an evaluation, then…
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AI Is a Blanket We Throw Over Dysfunction
Vanessa Chang advises companies on AI adoption and writes Think with V, a newsletter about what AI is doing to how we think. She joins Núria and Morgan to talk…
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Claude Is Watermarking Everything Now. What That Means for Your Work
Anthropic is now watermarking content generated with Claude, and Morgan read the headlines the way a lot of working writers did: Is my client going to see a…
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Only 8% of Local Health Departments Use AI. Heather Duncan Wants to Change That
Heather Duncan started out as an English professor, went back to school for an MPH, and is now a PhD student in epidemiology working on how local health…
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Who Does This Harm? Anne Murphy on Leading AI With Care
Anne Murphy spent decades in nonprofit fundraising before founding She Leads AI, where she's trained thousands of women to use AI responsibly and is building a…
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What Works? Rebuilding Evidence for the Age of AI
A traditional research meta-analysis — the gold standard for knowing whether something actually works — can cost over a million dollars and take three to four…
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Tarot, Fan Fiction, and Work Buddies: How People Really Use AI in 2026
Every so often we check in on how people are really using AI — and Harvard Business Review just dropped its 2026 report, so we do a full top-10 countdown. Some…
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The Tables Turn: When Clients Are the Ones Misusing AI
We spend a lot of time talking about how writers can use AI responsibly — but the conversation goes both ways. This week we get into two recent run-ins where…
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AI Is Already in Your Hospital: Breaking Down the HIMSS Healthcare AI Report
Nuria and Morgan dig into the HIMSS State of Healthcare AI and Digital Transformation report, which found that 71% of US healthcare organizations have already…
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The Robot That Told Dolly Parton Jokes: AI Companionship for Isolated Seniors
Nuria and Morgan share the heartwarming story of Jan Worrell, an 85-year-old living alone in remote Washington State, whose relationship with an AI companion…
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AI Gone Rogue: What 700 Cases of Misbehavior Mean for Agentic Workflows
A UK government-funded study identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions and charted a five-fold rise in misbehavior, and…
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Beyond the Jagged Frontier: How ChatGPT Disproved an 80-Year-Old Conjecture
Nuria and Morgan break down how an OpenAI model succeeded where mathematicians had failed for 80 years, disproving a central conjecture in discrete geometry…
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No Goblins Allowed: The Secret Instructions Running Your AI Chatbot
Nuria and Morgan pull back the curtain on system prompts, the hidden instructions that shape how every AI chatbot responds. From the now-infamous "no goblins…
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Global AI Survey: Hope, Alarm, and Hard Truths
Nuria and Morgan dig into Anthropic's massive global survey of 81,000 people on their hopes and fears about AI, exploring what people actually use it for…
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Know Your Tools, Know Your Value: An Editor's Take on AI
Editor Crystal Herron joins Nuria and Morgan ahead of her session at the Early Career Medical Writer Summit, bringing a perspective that stands out from the…
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Help the Right Clients Find You: Marketing for Medical Writers Who Hate Marketing
Lori De Milto built a six-figure freelance medical writing business within 18 months, starting back in 1997 when the internet was barely anything, and she…
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Career Pivots and Pharma Copywriting with Alex Howson and Holly Hagan
Alex Howson and Holly Hagan preview their summit sessions on two distinct entry points into medical writing. Alex talks about pivoting into continuing medical…
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Community as Career Infrastructure with Abigale Miller
Abigale Miller joins Nuria and Morgan to talk about why community is essential for freelance medical writers, especially as AI reshapes hiring, marketing, and…
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Inside the Early Career Medical Writers Summit
Nuria and Morgan introduce the Early Career Medical Writers Summit, running June 8 to 12 as an audio-first community experience on Slack with seven speakers…
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79% of Voters Think the Government Has No Plan to Protect Their Jobs from AI
A Blue Rose Research report is tracking AI as a political issue, and the numbers are striking. AI is rising in voter concern faster than any other issue they…
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Quit GPT: The Ethics of Which AI Gets Your Money
Morgan quit ChatGPT earlier this year and moved her work to Claude, and this episode explains why. The Quit GPT movement picked up momentum in early 2025 after…
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AI Saves You Time. Does That Mean You Owe the Client a Discount?
It's the question every medical writer is quietly asking: if AI cuts your project time in half, does your rate have to follow? Nuria gives her full answer, and…
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When AI Enters the Operating Room
A Reuters report on botched surgeries involving AI-assisted medical devices is making the rounds, and it raises some genuinely uncomfortable questions. Nuria…
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The Hiring Game Has Changed: What AI Means for Job Seekers and Recruiters
Morgan puts on her resume writer and interview coach hat for this one. From applicant tracking systems to AI-conducted video interviews, the job market has…
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work, It Intensifies It
This episode explores how, despite the promise of efficiency, AI can actually increase the cognitive load and volume of work for healthcare professionals. As…
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Live from Atlanta: AI Is Everywhere in CME (But Nobody's Been Trained on It)
Fresh from the ACEHP Annual Conference, Nuria and Morgan break down what three years of AI as the hottest conference topic actually looks like in practice…
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Follow the Money: The Future of Biotech and Drug Discovery
What are the bankers and big pharma execs saying about AI? We recap the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, exploring how specialized AI is moving beyond the…
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Privacy in the Age of Memorizing Machines
We’ve been told AI mushes ideas together like a human brain, but new research suggests it might be memorizing your data word-for-word. We discuss the…
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From Medical Writer to "Vibe Coder"
Think you need a computer science degree to automate your workflow? Think again. In this episode, we show how "vibe coding" with AI allowed us to build custom…
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Is the Doctor In? The Rise of Dr. ChatGPT
We explore the rapidly evolving dynamic between patients, physicians, and AI tools. We discuss the emergence of "Dr. ChatGPT" as the new "Dr. Google," where…
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The 7 Pillars of Safe AI: Unpacking the New ACCME Guidance
Join us for a deep dive into the new ACCME guidance document regarding the use of AI in continuing education. We walk through the seven key points suggested by…
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Repositioning the Medical Writer: Key Takeaways from Our First AI Summit
In this episode, we recap the highlights from our first-ever AI Summit. We break down key takeaways from the six speaker sessions, including Núria's keynote on…
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Bridging the AI Gap: From Med School to Practice
In this episode, Morgan and Núria discuss the evolving role of AI in clinical practice and its implications for continuing medical education (CME). They…
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The End of the Standardized Patient?
Núria and Morgan discuss the latest trends in medical education, particularly focusing on the integration of AI technologies. They explore the use of AI…
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Protect Your Inputs, Validate Your Outputs
Morgan and Núria reflect on their experiences at the AMWA annual conference, discussing key topics such as AI safety in medical writing, the importance of…
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Can You Copyright Your AI Work? (Ask the Monkey)
This week, Morgan and Núria explore the intersection of AI and law, particularly focusing on copyright issues arising from AI-generated content. They discuss…
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Why AI Thrives at Home but Stalls at Work: Barriers to Adoption in Medical Writing and CME
AI is booming in personal life but lagging in professional workflows. In this conversation, Núria and Morgan explore the contrasting use of AI in personal and…
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AI at ChangeMedEd 2025 – From Tool to Teacher
In this conversation, Núria and Morgan discuss the transformative impact of AI on medical education, highlighting insights from the ChangeMed 2025 conference…
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How We Use AI 2: Morgan
In this conversation, Dr. Morgan Leafe shares her experiences and insights on using AI, particularly ChatGPT, in her work as a medical writer. She discusses…
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How We Use AI 1: Núria
In this episode, Dr. Núria Negrão shares her experiences and insights on using AI and AI tools specifically tailored for medical communications and scientific…
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Welcome to AI Rounds
Welcome to AI Rounds, the podcast exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way medical writers and educators learn, think, teach, and write. Join…