Method guides
Each guide describes a real problem, the step-by-step method with Claude, and the expected deliverable.
Common foundation
Organizing your files for AIA single root folder, flat work folders, a typology: the condition for AI to find, file and reuse your documents.Setting safeguardsSix rules written once and for all, applied across all your uses: never overwrite, never delete, never send, never write without validation.Sorting your email by actionTwo email passes a day, sorted not by importance but by action: to reply, to do or to put in the calendar, to file, for information.The Reactor, an anticipation dashboardA single entry point that answers the question: what is coming up in the next few days, and what is ready?Scheduled routines without runaway costsFour orchestrators (morning, evening, weekly, monthly) driven by plans written in files, rather than twenty scattered tasks.Organising your skills into hats (roles)One orchestrator per role that routes to specialised building blocks: your know-how becomes reusable, by you and by others.CV, reports and career fileA single data sheet, updated as you go, from which the CV, the activity history and the annual reports are derived.Prioritising your invitationsConferences, podcasts, interviews, working groups: a calendar of invitations, date clashes settled early, and "no"s you can stand behind.Cross-checked inventory of your activityEvery two months, cross-check skills, dashboard, files and conversations to spot what is dormant, what diverges and what is missing.
Department & care
Organizing the department's staff meetingsList recurring staff meetings, keep the index of past talks, schedule the year's slots and spot topics never covered.Department schedule and organizationSpecify before building, cross-check assignments with the schedule without ever writing to it, spot conflicts every week.Preparing a staff meeting talkStart from the bank of talks already given, pick a topic never covered, and produce a sourced update in a few slides.Building a clinical caseFrom an anonymised discharge letter, a standard block of four slides: presentation, investigations, course, take-home message.Imaging: from export to teaching materialInventory an anonymized echocardiography or MRI export, sort the sequences, produce animated slides and quizzes.Annual activity report for a unitFill in the official template for an annual report (laboratory, unit, technical platform) from a log kept throughout the year.Putting together a department projectNew position, task delegation, equipment, team seminar: a presentation for hospital management and a medico-economic section, prepared in one session.Organizing a day or an eventPatient day, public event, training day: agreement, contacts, day plan, press and logistics in a single file.Laboratory protocols and proceduresReading protocol, report validation and distribution workflow, the team's typical week: write, version and distribute the department's rules.Requests for expert opinion and patient pathwaysRequests for opinion, referrals, multidisciplinary meetings: a clear circuit, response templates and follow-up, without ever circulating identifying data.Building the department's scheduling toolA shared schedule on a single web page: template week, one tab per activity, month view, sync for the whole team, published online. Built with Claude, step by step.Absences, freed-up rooms and stand-insWhen someone is absent, the room they were booked into becomes free: spot it automatically, suggest an available stand-in, and link absences to emails in both directions.Delivering, checking and publishing the scheduleLocal preview, automated triple test, double check of half-days and names, then publication in four clicks and online verification.
Teaching
Organising the start of a DIU academic yearRebuild the mailing list, settle the calendar, prepare the emails in the right order: the start of year of a multi-site diploma in one session.Lectures, MCQs and examsThe chain of lecture, MCQs, exam-question review (docimology), exam and marking board, driven by D-30 and D-15 deadlines rather than by urgency.Preparing a thesis defenceDetect the defence at D-14, prepare the speaking notes for the supervisor or the jury president, and the report.Supervising a thesis or dissertationOne tracking sheet per student, dated milestones, versioned reviews: supervise several projects without losing track of any.Watching continuing education platformsNew webinars, modules and replays from continuing medical education platforms, collected every week and added to the dashboard.Delegating and tracking teaching assignmentsAssessment design, clinical semiology, tutoring, ECOS (OSCE): share assignments among junior faculty, appoint leads, follow the annual cycle without chasing people from memory.
Research
Weekly literature watchA few thematic PubMed feeds, deduplicated and sorted every week: 10 to 20 references, and a "make the slide" checkbox.Literature review on a questionExhaustive PubMed search, tick-box sorting, retrieval of open-access full texts, a Word synthesis and one slide per reference.Preparing a conference presentationScoping, literature, inventory of your old decks, approved slide-by-slide outline, then building to your template and review.Reviewing a thesis or a manuscriptThree-level review in Word tracked changes, verified bibliography, arbitration of co-author feedback, always on a new version.Organising a research databaseFrom raw file to versioned database: disease-specific core datasets, a pseudonymised index, quality checks, and a query page that shows only aggregates.Organising a conference tripTickets, programme and talks gathered into an hour-by-hour itinerary, with the points to watch.Tracking your manuscripts through to submissionA single manuscript portfolio: role, current version, next step, pre-submission checks. No more papers stuck at V12.Peer reviews for journals and solicitationsAccept few, review well, decline fast: sort review invitations, spot predatory publishers, meet your deadlines.Managing your studies and cohortsOngoing data collection, site initiations, analysis plans, submission deadlines: one table per study and milestones planned backwards.Working on a single slideCheck a slide's reference, add one, bring it back to the template, extract a figure from a PDF: the unit task that feeds every presentation.