The 7-step collaboration
Each collaborative “space” in the FREE Pediatrics Community is designed to be chock full of high-level nuanced conversations all focused in some way on a narrow topic (e.g., gastroesophageal reflux). That's our goal. We challenge you to join a space that aligns with your interests, and create from scratch one little collaborative conversational project in that space (e.g., pre-term infants with reflux). You don’t necessarily need to be an expert on reflux. You might even still be in training. Expert or novice, you can run a 7-step collaboration that takes an issue head on. You will meet interesting + interested colleagues along the way. We will show you how it’s done, and we will give you a hand.
These are the steps:
Brainstorm in A.I.
Frame the conversation
Enter the (complex) prompt, please
Post the ‘draft’ conversation
Invite collaborators
Revise, annotate + publish
Add complexity with Perplexity
Step #1: Brainstorm in A.I.
To get the lay of the land, to get focused, to generate some initial ideas, open ChatGPT (or an AI of your choosing) and prompt it with:
“I am a health care professional leading a workshop on gastroesophageal reflux in pre-term infants. Generate ten (10) issues we should consider.”
Choose one of these freshly generated issues, insert it into the AI prompt field, and then add the following to the prompt:
“Take this particular issue deeper. Generate ten issues about this issue.”
Repeat this step with one or two more.
Step #2: Frame the conversation
Even if you are a topic expert, you might be intrigued with some of the issues you have surfaced. From these lists, choose the most interesting topics, issues or questions. Take one (or combine a few), and generate a conversation, prepping the AI with the following complex prompt:
“Three or more health care or scientific professionals will enter into casual conversation about a nuanced topic. Tone: casual, exhibiting a little bit of humor, but the content overall is very high-level professional. Each professional is confident but also introspective, harboring some doubts, which they express. They definitely are curious, and ask their colleagues here for their perspective. Perspectives might be surprising. Identify each speaker by their role only, do not create pseudonyms. I will provide the roles and the topic(s) to be discussed, then you will generate a conversation, limiting each response within the conversation to no more than forty words. Some of these responses should be very short.”
Add three (or four, but not two) roles (in this case: “Roles: neonatologist, speech therapist, pediatric surgeon”). Then add the issue(s) to be discussed.
Step #3. Enter the (complex) prompt, please
In ChatGPT (or other AI), send the instructions, the roles, and the topic(s), usually altogether as ONE BIG PROMPT. You don’t have to say please. You will be tempted to, but you’re talking to a machine.
Step #4: Post the 'draft' conversation
You will have in hand a fully developed professional conversation. It will likely be quite good already. Scary good. In the Pediatrics Community, join the appropriate “space” (in this example, "gastroesophageal reflux). Copy + paste the conversation (or a portion of it) into a new “Article” in the space. The first line, all caps, should be “DRAFT”.
Step #5: Invite collaborators
There is a SHARE button in the top right corner of your posted article draft. Generate a link and send it to your potential collaborators. Here is where “please” is quite appropriate. Maybe you already know your collaborators, or you might invite a knowledgeable outsider (e.g., a gastroenterologist, or an investigator in a published study). Ask them questions, ask them to comment on the draft, to elaborate on certain points. Agree / disagree, or maybe agree but with certain caveats. Poke holes in it. Improve it. Please.
The comments section is public. It might attract unexpected comments from other professionals in the Pediatrics Community. These could be leveraged into more collaboration. Or you might decide to keep this phase private — e.g., as an email exchange, or as a “chat” within the reflux “space” (top right of space, two overlapping chat bubbles). The only problem with the private chat function is that you cannot later add another person.
Step #6: Revise, annotate + publish
You might revise or annotate the original conversation. Or perhaps it is fine as is, with the comment feed adding context. Done? Let us know, and we can clean up the typography, add a graphic and possibly publish it in Attention Span (https://attentionspan.ai).
Step #7: Add complexity with Perplexity
Send us the original issues you identified, and we will run some of them through Perplexity to generate a more in-depth take on them, complete with references. Or you can do this, and send us the link.
Go deep?
At this juncture, you (or a collaborator) might decide to lead a second conversation generated from the original list of issues. Or start and transcribe a “real” conversation or interview with one or more of your collaborators. It’s possible that your original AI - enabled conversation leads to many more collaborations within the space.
We are not bots
We are not bots. We are the (AI-assisted) Pediatrics Community. Join us.
Who can join?
Membership in the Pediatrics Community is FREE and open to any professional (or professional-in-training) whose work impacts the lives of children. In your profile, please briefly state your role or qualifications.
Which professionals?
Everyone who collaborates in the care + nurturing of kids. Pediatricians and family practitioners, pediatric nurses + CNS's + NP's + CNA's. PA's. CMA's. Allergists, immunologists, neonatologists, critical care physicians. Hematologists. Cardiologists, pulmonologists. Other -ologists. Respiratory therapists. Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, medical students, residents + fellows. Surgeons. Dentists. Dental surgeons. Case managers, community organizers, physical + occupational + speech therapists. Play therapists. Teachers. Radiologists. Oncologists. Radiation oncologists. Ultrasonographers. Pharmacists. Nutritionists + dieticians. Administrators. Researchers. Scientists. Drug discoverers. Thought leaders. Writers. Policymakers. Engineers who design equipment, architects who design hospitals + rural clinics. Community health workers. Aid workers, relief workers, philanthropists, economic development specialists. Rabbis and imams and priests and ministers. Ministers of Health. Midwives and doulas. Childbirth educators. Lactation consultants. We've probably left out quite a few professions. Please let us know. Worldwide or next door, the Pediatrics Community welcomes professionals active in the care + nurturing of kids. Join us. It's FREE.
If your “space” doesn’t exist?
Tell us! We will open a new one.
AttentionSpan.ai
Attention Span is not a textbook. Its concise, focused explorations are much easier to consume, and can be more compelling than textbook chapters, but they are not competing with textbooks. They are complementing them. Head down an Attention Span rabbit hole and emerge with a nuanced, complex, practical and conceptual understanding of a relevant topic.
What’s missing?
The Pediatrics Community and Attention Span are brand spanking new. As we get going, there are plenty of knowledge gaps. Lead a 7-step collaboration that fills a gap. In the process get to know some capable colleagues and fantastic mentors from across the children’s health care spectrum.
A big thanks
A big thanks to our present and future collaborators, conversationalists, discussants, debaters, provocateurs, listeners. And to our future sponsors. And to each and every organization in the Pediatrics Directory: in the directory, your "invisible publicity" is plugging your work or wares, and is funding The Pediatrics Community.
