What you'll accomplish
By the end of this guide, you'll have used ChatGPT to generate a complete specialty onboarding kit — including a terminology guide, common medications list, documentation phrase library, and EHR workflow notes — that prepares you for a new rotation before your first shift. What used to take 3-4 weeks of on-the-job learning now takes one focused weekend session.
What you'll need
- A free ChatGPT account at chat.openai.com (or Claude/Gemini — same approach works)
- The name of your new specialty and any information your employer gave you about the clinic
- A Google Doc or notes app to organize your output
- Time needed: 2-3 hours to generate and organize content; 1-2 hours to review before your shift
- Cost: Free
How-To Guide: Use ChatGPT to Onboard to a New Specialty in a Weekend
Step 1: Create a new conversation and set context
Go to chat.openai.com and sign in. Click "New chat" in the left sidebar. Start by telling ChatGPT your situation:
"I'm a medical scribe starting a new rotation in [specialty] at a [clinic type]. I want to build a complete onboarding study kit. I'll ask you several questions — please give me detailed, scribe-specific answers."
What you should see: ChatGPT acknowledges your context and says it's ready.