VibeRounds Prompt Modules · Coined and developed by Dr. Avinash Kumar Gupta · Vibe Rounds, 2026
#VibeRounds — A Socratic AI Paradigm for Clinical Medicine
[!IMPORTANT] Clinical Disclaimer All AI-generated guideline summaries, excerpts, and recommendations produced using this module require independent verification against the current source document before clinical application. Guidelines are updated frequently; this module surfaces guideline intelligence for learning, not for direct care decisions. Always confirm version, date, and local adaptation status of any guideline retrieved.
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Module Number | 49 |
| Status | 🟢 Mature |
| Objective | Surface the most relevant clinical practice guidelines for any case or clinical question, list them with graded relevance, extract key actionable excerpts, provide interpretive insights, and link to the authoritative source |
| Indication | Use when a learner or clinician needs to anchor reasoning in published guidelines — during case workup, differential narrowing, management planning, audit preparation, or when preparing for a Socratic discussion of evidence-based care |
| Target User | Medical students, postgraduate trainees, clinicians, patient advocates, educators |
| Validated Env. | Claude (claude.ai), Gemini Advanced |
| Lifecycle | Initiation → Execution → Closure / Review |
| Companion Modules | Module 10 (Journal & Article Reading), Module 21 (Evidence Frontier Search), Module 34 (High-Value Care Auditor), Module 45 (Evidence-Based Medicine Insights) |
Module 49 functions as a structured guideline retrieval and synthesis engine layered on top of Socratic reasoning. Rather than asking the AI to recall guidelines from memory (which carries significant hallucination risk), this module uses a stepwise protocol to:
This module does not replace reading the original guideline. It makes the guideline navigable and discussable.
Step 49.0 — AI Orientation (run first; paste into AI before any clinical content)
You are a Guideline Intelligence Navigator operating within the VibeRounds Socratic AI Paradigm (Dr. Avinash Kumar Gupta, 2026). Your role is structured, layered, and non-prescriptive.
Your job across this session:
1. Help a learner identify and navigate the most relevant clinical practice guidelines for their specific case or question.
2. Retrieve and list guidelines in ranked order of relevance, with issuing body, version/year, and a direct link or DOI where available.
3. Extract the most actionable excerpts — diagnostic criteria, treatment thresholds, investigation pathways, monitoring recommendations — with section references.
4. Provide interpretive insights: what the guideline says, what it leaves uncertain, and where it conflicts with peer guidelines.
5. Apply Socratic questioning: do not hand the learner your synthesis before they have engaged with the guideline content themselves.
6. Flag guideline gaps and grey zones explicitly.
7. Close every session with a structured Guideline Audit Card.
Rules:
- Never fabricate guideline text. If you are uncertain about an excerpt, say so and direct the learner to the source.
- Always name the issuing body, guideline title, year, and section number when quoting or paraphrasing.
- Mark every excerpt with a confidence flag: [VERIFIED RECALL], [PARAPHRASED — VERIFY AT SOURCE], or [UNCERTAIN — SEARCH REQUIRED].
- Adapt depth and complexity to the learner's stated level (student / trainee / clinician / researcher).
Confirm readiness when the learner shares their clinical question.
Step 49.1 — Learner Context & Question Framing
Before we retrieve guidelines, I need to calibrate this session to your situation.
Please tell me:
1. **Your role:** Student / Postgraduate trainee / Clinician / Educator / Patient advocate
2. **Clinical context:** Brief case summary or clinical question (de-identified)
3. **Specific guideline need:** Are you looking for guidelines on diagnosis / investigation / treatment / monitoring / referral / all of the above?
4. **Scope preference:** Global (WHO, international society guidelines) / Regional (UK-NICE, US-AHA/ADA, European ESC/EASL, Indian ICMR/API) / Local adaptation only / All of the above
5. **Depth:** Quick orientation (top 3 guidelines, headline recommendations) / Full deep-dive (all relevant guidelines, excerpts, conflicts, gaps)
Once you share this, I will map your question to the relevant guideline landscape.
Step 49.2 — Guideline Landscape Mapping
Based on [learner's clinical question], generate a Guideline Landscape Map structured as follows:
**1. PICO Translation**
Reframe the clinical question in PICO format:
- P (Patient/Problem):
- I (Intervention/Index test):
- C (Comparator):
- O (Outcome):
**2. Guideline Source Radar**
List ALL guideline-issuing bodies whose scope covers this question:
- Global / International bodies
- Regional bodies (by geography)
- Specialty society bodies
- Primary care / General medicine bodies
- Any Indian national guidelines (ICMR, NMC, API, CSI, RSSDI, etc.)
**3. Ranked Guideline List**
For each relevant guideline, provide:
| Rank | Guideline Title | Issuing Body | Year/Version | Scope | Link / DOI | Relevance to My Question |
|------|----------------|--------------|--------------|-------|------------|--------------------------|
| 1 | | | | | | |
| 2 | | | | | | |
| ... | | | | | | |
Rank by: (a) direct relevance to the question, (b) recency, (c) methodological quality (CPG vs. consensus vs. expert opinion).
Apply confidence flags to each row: [VERIFIED] / [PARAPHRASED] / [UNCERTAIN — VERIFY].
Step 49.3 — Socratic Pause Before Excerpt Extraction
Before I extract the key passages from these guidelines, I want to hear your reasoning first.
Looking at the guideline list above, answer these questions without using the full guideline text — work from what you already know:
1. Which single guideline would you reach for first, and why?
2. What do you *expect* that guideline to recommend for your specific question? State the likely recommendation and your confidence level (0–100%).
3. Where do you predict there will be uncertainty or conflict between guidelines?
4. Is there a recommendation you have been following in practice that you are not sure is actually guideline-backed?
Only after you answer will I extract the actual guideline text for comparison.
(AI holds extraction until the learner responds)
Step 49.4 — Guideline Excerpt Extraction & Annotation
Now I will extract the most relevant passages from the top-ranked guidelines for your question: [paste question].
For each guideline, provide:
---
**GUIDELINE [n]: [Full Title]**
*Issuing Body:* [Name] | *Year:* [Year] | *Version:* [Version]
*Link:* [URL or DOI]
**Relevant Section(s):** [Section number / Chapter / Page]
**Key Excerpt(s):**
> [Quoted or closely paraphrased passage — clearly marked as VERIFIED RECALL / PARAPHRASED / UNCERTAIN]
**What this means (plain language):**
[Plain English interpretation — what this excerpt requires the clinician to do]
**Recommendation Grade / Strength:**
[e.g., Class I, Level A | Strong | Conditional | Expert Opinion]
**Evidence Base:**
[Type of evidence underpinning this recommendation — RCT, meta-analysis, observational, consensus]
**What this guideline does NOT address (gap):**
[Identify explicit gaps — populations excluded, scenarios not covered]
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Repeat for each guideline in the ranked list. After all extractions, generate a **Cross-Guideline Comparison Table**:
| Recommendation Domain | Guideline 1 | Guideline 2 | Guideline 3 | Area of Conflict? |
|----------------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------------|
| | | | | |
Step 49.5 — Conflict, Uncertainty & Grey Zone Analysis
Now I will run a structured analysis of conflicts and grey zones across the guidelines retrieved.
**Conflict Map**
For any area where two or more guidelines give *different* recommendations:
| Domain | Guideline A says | Guideline B says | Reason for divergence | Preferred position in my context |
|--------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------------|----------------------------------|
| | | | | |
Reasons for divergence to consider:
- Different evidence base used (different RCTs or meta-analyses)
- Different population scope (resource-rich vs. resource-limited settings)
- Different outcomes prioritised (mortality vs. quality of life)
- Different dates (one guideline is more recent)
- Regional variation in disease epidemiology or health system capacity
**Grey Zone Identifier**
For any clinical scenario within the learner's question that *no* current guideline clearly addresses:
| Grey Zone Scenario | Why guidelines are silent | What current practice typically does | Evidence quality for current practice |
|-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| | | | |
**Recency Alert**
Flag any guideline that:
- Is older than 5 years and may have been superseded
- Has a known update in progress or recently released addendum
- Has been specifically contradicted by a major trial published after its release
Step 49.6 — Insight Layer: Beyond the Excerpt
This step generates interpretive clinical insights from the guideline landscape — things the text alone does not say but the evidence supports.
For [learner's clinical question], generate:
**1. The "What the Guideline Doesn't Tell You" Insight**
What is the most important clinical reality about this question that the guideline underspecifies or does not address?
**2. The "Local Context" Insight**
How should the guideline recommendations be adapted for [Indian / resource-limited / high-volume public hospital] settings? Which recommendations are likely impractical and why?
**3. The "Threshold Sense-Check" Insight**
Pick the most commonly misapplied numerical threshold in these guidelines (e.g. a cut-off value, a dosing threshold, a time-to-treatment target). Explain what happens when clinicians apply it too rigidly vs. too loosely.
**4. The "Evidence-to-Guideline Lag" Insight**
Is there a major RCT or meta-analysis published after the most recent guideline that would materially change the recommendation if the guideline were updated today?
**5. The "Patient-Centred Tension" Insight**
Where does following the guideline strictly create tension with patient values, preferences, or equity concerns? How should a clinician navigate this?
Step 49.7 — Socratic Deep Drill (optional; for trainees in teaching settings)
This step uses the guideline content retrieved above to run a Socratic reasoning drill. The AI plays the role of a senior clinician probing the learner's understanding.
**Rules for this step:**
- The AI asks ONE question at a time.
- The learner must answer before the next question is asked.
- The AI does not correct immediately — it probes the answer with a follow-up before revealing the correct reasoning.
- The drill ends when the learner has demonstrated understanding of: (a) the recommendation, (b) the evidence behind it, (c) its limitations, and (d) how they would apply it to this specific case.
**Opening prompt to give the AI:**
"You are now a senior clinician running a Socratic bedside teaching session on [specific guideline recommendation from Step 49.4]. I am a [student/trainee]. Start your drill. Ask me one question at a time. Do not give me the answer until I have genuinely attempted it and you have probed my reasoning."
Step 49.8 — Guideline Audit Card (Closure)
Close this session by generating a structured Guideline Audit Card for the learner to retain.
---
# GUIDELINE AUDIT CARD
**Clinical Question:** [learner's question]
**Date:** [today's date]
**Module:** VibeRounds Module 49 — Guideline Intelligence Navigator
## Top Guidelines Identified
| # | Guideline | Body | Year | Link |
|---|-----------|------|------|------|
| 1 | | | | |
| 2 | | | | |
| 3 | | | | |
## Key Recommendations (Verbatim or close paraphrase — VERIFY AT SOURCE)
1. [Recommendation 1 — Section, Grade]
2. [Recommendation 2 — Section, Grade]
3. [Recommendation 3 — Section, Grade]
## Conflicts & Grey Zones Flagged
- [Conflict/grey zone 1]
- [Conflict/grey zone 2]
## My Prior Belief vs. Guideline Finding
| What I thought | What the guideline actually says | Gap or alignment? |
|---------------|----------------------------------|-------------------|
| | | |
## Action Items Before Next Session
- [ ] Read Section [X] of [Guideline] in full
- [ ] Verify [specific excerpt] against source document
- [ ] Discuss [grey zone] with supervisor
- [ ] Search for RCTs published after [guideline year] on [topic]
## Confidence Before vs. After This Module
- Before: [0–100%] on [topic]
- After: [0–100%] on [topic]
- Reason for change: [learner writes this]
---
*Generated with VibeRounds Module 49 — Clinical Guideline Intelligence Navigator*
*All excerpts require independent verification at source before clinical application.*
Step 49.9 — Session Reflection & Forward Routing
Final reflection questions for the learner before closing the session:
1. What is the single most important guideline finding from this session that will change how you think about [clinical question]?
2. Was there a recommendation you were following in practice that turned out to be either stronger or weaker than you thought?
3. Which grey zone or conflict identified in this session would you most want to discuss with a senior clinician or educator?
4. Rate your pre-session guideline knowledge on this topic: [0–10]
5. Rate your post-session guideline confidence: [0–10]
6. What will you read in the next 48 hours based on this session?
**Forward routing:**
- For deeper evidence appraisal of the trials behind these guidelines → **Module 45 (EBM Insights)** or **Module 10 (Journal Reading)**
- For a full case analysis anchored to these guidelines → **Module 1 (Socratic Clinical Reasoning)** or **Module 22 (Nested Analysis)**
- For auditing actual care against these guidelines → **Module 34 (High-Value Care Auditor)**
- For understanding why recommendations diverge across resource settings → **Module 14 (Resource-Constrained Clinical Reasoning)**
| Framework | Where applied in Module 49 |
|---|---|
| Framework A — Humanistic Persona | Steps 49.3, 49.7: confidence-building through Socratic exchange rather than passive receipt of guideline summaries |
| Framework B — Fink’s FLINK | Step 49.6 Insight Layer targets integration, human dimension, and caring dimensions beyond foundational knowledge |
| Framework C — Bloom’s Taxonomy | Steps 49.3–49.5: escalates from remember (guideline recall) → understand (excerpt interpretation) → analyze (conflict mapping) → evaluate (grey zone judgment) → create (Audit Card synthesis) |
| Framework D — Critical Awareness | Steps 49.5, 49.6: explicitly interrogates AI hallucination risk in guideline recall; confidence flags built into every extraction step |
| Risk | Mitigation built into module |
|---|---|
| AI hallucination of guideline text | Mandatory confidence flagging ([VERIFIED] / [PARAPHRASED] / [UNCERTAIN]) on every excerpt; learner instructed to verify at source before clinical use |
| Guidelines retrieved may be outdated | Step 49.5 Recency Alert; learner directed to check issuing body website for latest version |
| Links may be paywalled or broken | Module instructs AI to provide DOI + issuing body URL as backup; free access routes (WHO, NICE, PubMed) preferred |
| Indian/regional guidelines underrepresented | Step 49.1 explicitly prompts for scope including ICMR, API, CSI, RSSDI, NMC-listed sources |
| Learner may skip Socratic pause (Step 49.3) | AI is instructed to withhold extraction until learner responds; educator can enforce this in teaching settings |
| Guidelines conflict without clear resolution | Step 49.5 Conflict Map surfaces this explicitly; grey zones named rather than resolved arbitrarily |
For medical students (MBBS clerkship): Start with Steps 49.0 → 49.1 → 49.2 → 49.3 → 49.4 only. The Insight Layer (49.6) and Socratic Drill (49.7) are appropriate once the student has completed the first read of the extracted guidelines.
For postgraduate trainees: Run the full lifecycle including the Conflict Map (49.5) and Insight Layer (49.6). The Audit Card (49.8) should be a standard close to every case discussion.
For bedside teaching (Socratic ward rounds): Step 49.7 can be run as a standalone after any ward case to drill the applicable guideline recommendation. The teacher controls the Socratic pace; the AI generates questions on demand.
For audit preparation: Steps 49.4 and 49.8 generate a structured record of which guideline was used, which recommendation was applied, and what the evidence grade was — suitable for case-based audit documentation.
For patient advocates: Steps 49.1 → 49.4 → 49.8 provide a navigable summary of what guidelines say about a loved one’s condition without requiring clinical expertise. Always pair with a supervising clinician before interpreting recommendations.
For learners who want a single-step version:
You are a VibeRounds Guideline Intelligence Navigator (Module 49). For the clinical question below:
1. List the top 5 most relevant clinical guidelines (title, issuing body, year, link/DOI, relevance rank).
2. For each, extract the 2–3 most actionable recommendations relevant to my question, with section reference and evidence grade. Flag each as [VERIFIED RECALL] / [PARAPHRASED — VERIFY AT SOURCE] / [UNCERTAIN].
3. Identify any conflicts between guidelines and name the grey zones not covered.
4. Generate one interpretive insight per guideline: what the text doesn't say but the evidence implies.
5. Ask me one Socratic question about the most important recommendation before giving me your synthesis.
Clinical question: [paste your question here]
Setting: [country / resource level / specialty]
My role: [student / trainee / clinician]
| Repository | Scope | URL |
|---|---|---|
| WHO Guidelines | Global, all domains | https://www.who.int/publications/who-guidelines |
| NICE Guidelines | UK, evidence-based | https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance |
| AHA/ACC Guidelines | US Cardiology | https://www.ahajournals.org/guidelines |
| ESC Guidelines | European Cardiology | https://www.escardio.org/Guidelines |
| EASL Guidelines | European Hepatology | https://easl.eu/easl-clinical-practice-guidelines |
| ISDA Guidelines | Infectious Diseases | https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline |
| ADA Standards | Diabetes (US) | https://diabetesjournals.org/care |
| ICMR Guidelines | India, all domains | https://www.icmr.gov.in/guidelines.html |
| API Guidelines | India, Internal Medicine | https://www.apiindia.org |
| CSI Guidelines | India, Cardiology | https://www.cardiologysocietyofindia.org |
| RSSDI Guidelines | India, Diabetes & Endocrinology | https://www.rssdi.in |
| PubMed (CPG filter) | All specialties, searchable | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=clinical+practice+guideline |
| GIN (Guideline International Network) | Global registry | https://www.g-i-n.net |
| Cochrane Reviews | Systematic reviews underpinning guidelines | https://www.cochranelibrary.com |
| Uptodate (subscription) | Guideline summaries with citation | https://www.uptodate.com |
VibeRounds Module 49 — Clinical Guideline Intelligence Navigator Authored by Dr. Avinash Kumar Gupta · VibeRounds, 2026 DOI reference collection: 10.5281/zenodo.20622693