# Rounds vs ChatGPT for Medical Questions
> Why clinicians should not rely on ChatGPT for clinical questions. Rounds is citation-first: every answer is grounded in guidelines, FDA labels, and medical literature you can verify.

## Overview

ChatGPT (and other general-purpose AI assistants) is widely used for medical questions despite not being designed for clinical decision support. Rounds is a citation-first clinical AI built specifically for clinicians, residents, and medical students. The core difference is auditability: Rounds answers are grounded in named guidelines, FDA labels, and peer-reviewed literature that the clinician can open and verify before acting. General-purpose chat is a strong reasoning engine but lacks the citation contract, the clinical voice rules, and the workflow guardrails appropriate for medical use.

## Who this is for

- Clinicians evaluating AI for clinical work
- Hospital governance and CMIO teams
- Educators establishing learner-facing AI policy

## Cited source

**Public product positioning + AMA AI policy framework** (2024) — AMA / Rounds

_Primary publication:_ AMA Principles for Augmented Intelligence Development, Deployment, and Use

## FAQs

### Why not just use ChatGPT for clinical questions?

General-purpose chat lacks the citation contract, audited clinical voice rules, and workflow guardrails appropriate for medical use. Citations are also inconsistent or fabricated.

### Is Rounds a wrapper around an LLM?

Rounds is a clinical AI product with hardcoded clinical voice rules, citation contracts, and workflow surfaces (chat, articles, calculators, AI assistants) built specifically for clinical use.

### Does my institution have AI policy that affects this?

Most academic medical centres now have AI-use policies. Rounds is built with HIPAA-aware architecture and institutional options for teams that need them.

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_Rounds AI is a citation-first clinical AI assistant. It supports clinical reasoning by surfacing cited information and is not a substitute for independent clinical judgement._