Announcing The Physician's Guide to AI: A Free Resource for Physicians Across Every Specialty

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept in medicine — it's already changing how physicians document visits, interpret imaging, summarize research, communicate with patients, and make clinical decisions. Yet despite the rapid pace of innovation, many physicians have been left asking the same question:

Where do I start?

Today, we're excited to announce the release of The Physician's Guide to AI: A Practical Primer Across Specialties, a new collaborative e-book from Offcall and MD+ designed to answer exactly that question.

Built by Physicians, Medical Students, and AI Leaders

This project represents an incredible collaborative effort. More than 40 physicians, medical students, residents, researchers, and editors came together with a shared mission: create an accessible, practical guide that helps clinicians understand how AI is transforming medicine.

We're especially grateful to our partners at MD+, whose leadership and collaboration helped bring this ambitious project to life. Together, Offcall and MD+ assembled contributors from across the country to develop specialty-specific chapters that balance practical applications with thoughtful discussion about the opportunities and limitations of AI in clinical care.

The result is a resource written by healthcare professionals, for healthcare professionals.

A Practical Guide Across Nine Medical Specialties

Unlike many AI resources that focus on technology alone, The Physician's Guide to AI is grounded in clinical practice.

The book explores how AI is already impacting nine specialties, including internal medicine, emergency medicine, surgery, oncology, and others. Each chapter provides practical, evidence-informed examples of how AI can support physicians in their daily work — from documentation and workflow optimization to education, clinical decision support, and patient communication.

Whether you're a medical student learning the fundamentals, a resident beginning to incorporate AI into your workflow, or an attending evaluating new technologies, the goal is the same: help you understand AI without the hype.

AI Should Support Physicians — Not Replace Them

One of the themes we've explored repeatedly on the How I Doctor podcast is that AI is at its best when it removes administrative burden and gives physicians more time to practice medicine.

As Dr. Spencer Dorn recently shared on the podcast, conversations about AI often jump immediately to replacing physicians. In reality, today's most valuable applications are helping clinicians reclaim time spent on documentation, organize information more efficiently, and reduce unnecessary administrative work — not replace the human relationship between doctor and patient.

That's the philosophy that guided this book.

Technology should enhance clinical judgment, not substitute for it.

A Community Effort

This project would not have been possible without the dedication of more than 40 contributors who generously shared their expertise, reviewed chapters, and helped ensure the content is relevant across specialties. Their willingness to collaborate reflects one of the best parts of medicine: when clinicians come together, we all benefit.

To everyone who contributed through writing, editing, reviewing, and advising — thank you.

Download Your Free Copy

We're proud to share The Physician's Guide to AI: A Practical Primer Across Specialties with the physician community.

Whether you're cautiously curious or already integrating AI into your clinical workflow, we hope this guide helps you better understand one of the most important technological shifts in modern medicine.

Best of all, it's completely free.

Download your copy today and join the conversation about how physicians can shape the future of AI in healthcare — not simply react to it.