On/Offcall: You're Invited to Our AI Webinar Series for Clinicians!

Welcome back to On/Offcall!

🚨 MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Offcall is launching The Definitive AI Residency for Clinicians — a four-part live webinar series designed to help every clinician confidently integrate AI into their practice.

The series is hosted by Dr. Graham Walker Offcall co-founder and Emergency Medicine physician, alongside Dr. Michael Hobbs, AI educator and Direct Primary Care pediatrician, and will feature special guest speakers throughout!

🗓️ Session #1 kicks off March 25: This first session will focus on practical ways to start incorporating AI today, featuring live demos and featured tools!

We’ll break down:

👉 How you can use AI for clinical documentation to actually save time
👉 A simple framework you can use to evaluate AI outputs immediately
👉 How to recognize AI failure modes in medical text before they affect patient care
👉 And Graham and Michael's personal AI toolkits and best practices

Clinicians: This is our moment to stay ahead of the curve, learn with peers, and level up so you can shape how AI shows up in medicine. A huge thank you to our sponsor Evidently for helping us bring practical AI education to clinicians!

🗓️ March 25: RSVP to claim your spot

Introducing: Office Hours With Graham!

What’s your biggest question about AI or the future of medicine?
We’re introducing something new: Office Hours with Graham, a special new series where Graham will answer all your open and honest questions about:

👉 How AI is changing medicine
👉 How to deploy technology to fit clinician workflows
👉 How to practice a career in entrepreneurship and medicine
Or anything else that’s on your mind!

As an Emergency Medicine physician, AI leader, and 2x startup co-founder, if you’re wondering about it, Graham has probably lived it firsthand. So you can either: watch this video and drop your questions in the comments, reply with your question directly to this email, or you can email a voice note to podcast@offcall.com so we can feature your question on Office Hours and the How I Doctor podcast. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Inside the First Autonomous AI Prescription Program w/ Doctronic’s Dr. Byron Crowe

It's the debate taking over healthcare: Should AI be able to renew prescriptions fully autonomously?

The minute Doctronic partnered with Utah to launch the first autonomous AI prescribing program in the country., we knew we had to have Dr. Byron Crowe on How I Doctor. This week, we were thrilled to welcome him to the show! 👏

Dr. Crowe is an internal medicine physician, former Harvard Medical School faculty member, and the Chief Medical Officer of Doctronic, the company behind the nation’s first state-approved program allowing AI to renew prescriptions autonomously. In this episode, he sits down with Graham to unpack this new category of care delivery. They break down:

👉 How the Doctronic team partnered with Utah regulators to launch the first autonomous AI prescribing program
👉 Why Byron believes AI won’t replace physicians, but will instead reassign us toward higher level work that requires human judgment and moral agency
👉 The hard question most AI companies avoid: Who’s liable when AI gets it wrong?
👉 Whether Utah represents the start of a national shift in care delivery or an experiment the medical establishment may try to stop

👀 If you’ve been wondering what cutting edge AI that pushes the boundaries of clinical care actually looks like in practice, this conversation pulls back the curtain.

🎧 Out now! Listen to the full episode

Physician Spotlight: Dr. Yair Saperstein

5 questions with Dr. Yair Saperstein, the internal medicine and clinical informatics physician who is also the co-founder and CEO of Avo, the company building AI-powered clinical copilots for your EHR. (thank you for the previous nomination, Dr. John Dayton!)

1. Yair, what would you tell a first-year resident that no one told you? You might find yourself in a system that treats you like a cog, but you've got the tools, the wherewithal, and now the domain knowledge to fix it from the inside. I've seen docs burn out when they collapse their whole self into the white coat, because they're stuck in a system they can't control. And I've seen docs thrive by embracing and driving what they can actually change.

Fix what's broken. Work together. Find your thing and get after it. You don't need anyone's permission. As Nate Gross told me years after my residency: no one got fired for building something to help their workflow.

2. Forget pizza parties — what's one way you've coped with burnout that's actually made a difference? Building. Not just building a product, but building with people toward something real. Clicking through meaningless documentation while watching patients fall through gaps I could see clearly but had no power to fix = no power to control something that was a major part of my life. My response was to start building: I helped implement a two-way communication system to replace pagers, worked on informatics infrastructure, started a wellness committee. Projects that made an actual dent. And eventually co-founding Avo, putting AI copilots directly into the EHR, because that let me drive the system from the inside out.