ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2023
Complexity of Infectious Diseases Compared With Other Medical Subspecialties.
Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Evaluating chain-of-thought prompting in a GPT chatbot for BCID2 interpretation and stewardship: how does AI compare to human experts?Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2025Article
- SPOC (Small Private Online Course)-infused flipped classroom: a promising approach to address knowledge lag and practice gaps in infectious diseases teaching.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Let's Have a Chat: How Well Does an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Answer Clinical Infectious Diseases Pharmacotherapy Questions?Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Infectious Diseases Training in the 21st Century: A Glass Half Full or Half Empty?The Journal of infectious diseases · 2024Article
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Abstract
We aimed to highlight the complexity of the field of clinical infectious diseases compared with other medical specialties. Using available metrics, the body of knowledge within clinical infectious diseases is comparatively large and complex. This increasing complexity is underappreciated by current physician compensation schemes, needs to be carefully managed to educate future physicians, and may serve as a barrier to recruitment into the field.
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