Fig 1.
Study Methodology.
Table 1.
Baseline demographics of survey responders (n = 562).
Table 2.
Interest and current use by medical specialty.
Table 3.
Physician interest in LLM-based virtual assistants (n = 562).
Fig 2.
Physician interest levels and applications of LLM-based virtual assistants.
Interest was expressed for all listed purposes, with highest levels for journal review, patient education, and documentation/dictation. Among the physicians currently using LLM assistants (n = 118), the most frequently used applications were medical information and education, study/research design, and documentation/dictation. *Interest levels were obtained from the entire study cohort (n = 562).
**Current use rates were obtained from a sub-cohort of physicians who endorsed currently using LLM-based virtual assistants, and multiple applications could be endorsed by the same physician (n = 118).
Table 4.
Characteristics of physicians currently using LLM-based virtual assistants (n = 118).
Table 5.
Inferential statistics by gender, role, and age bracket.
Fig 3.
Physician Interest Rates by Gender and Role.
Males were less likely to show interest for the following domains: study/research design (p = 0.011), journal review (p = 0.015), patient education (p < 0.001), and exam preparation (p < 0.001). More trainees were very interested for the following uses: medical information and education (p = 0.021), documentation/dictation (p = -0.022), study/research design (p = 0.002), journal review (p = 0.002), and exam preparation (p < 0.001).