Challenges and Benefits of Advanced Frontier Models in Medicine

The use of advanced frontier models like OpenAI GPT-4 in medicine presents challenges regarding their outperformance of medically tweaked models like MedPOM, transparency, and lack of supervised fine-tuning. These models contain unknown content and lack comprehensive and up-to-date medical knowledge. However, they have the potential to generate synthetic notes that surpass traditional medical notes, provided the doctor articulates the physical exam. The automation of these notes offers multiple levels of benefits in medical practice.