About MedLit AI Digest

Who it is for

MedLit AI Digest is designed exclusively for qualified healthcare professionals and academic researchers in biomedical fields:

• NHS Consultants and Surgeons — stay current with clinical literature across your specialty without spending hours on PubMed each week.
• Academic Researchers and PhD Candidates — monitor the literature in your thesis area automatically. Never miss a relevant paper again.
• Clinical Trialists — track competing trials, methodology advances, and regulatory guidance relevant to your study.
• Cardiologists, Intensivists, Transplant Surgeons, Immunologists — any clinician with research interests that span specialties and methodologies.

What it does

You describe your research interests in plain English — your clinical specialty, methodological interests, specific topics you follow. The service translates that into a structured research profile and runs it against PubMed/MEDLINE every week. Each paper is scored for relevance to your specific interests, and the highest-scoring papers are summarised with an explanation of why they matter to your work. The result is a personalised digest delivered as a finished, readable document.

This is a monitoring tool, not a research tool. You set it once and stay current forever — the value is in what you do not miss.

How it works

The pipeline has three stages, all running server-side:

• Stage 1 — Interest parsing. Your plain-English description is parsed into a structured research profile: topics, methodologies, exclusions, career context.
• Stage 2 — PubMed search and scoring. The profile generates targeted PubMed queries using MeSH terms and Boolean operators. Each returned paper is scored 0–100 for relevance.
• Stage 3 — Digest generation. Top-scoring papers receive AI-generated summaries that explain relevance, highlight methodology, and surface key findings.

Papers are sourced exclusively from PubMed/MEDLINE — the National Library of Medicine's database of peer-reviewed biomedical literature. All AI-generated summaries should be verified against the original publications before clinical use.

Who built it

MedLit AI Digest was built by a Consultant Transplant Surgeon working in the NHS (UK) who was frustrated by spending hours each week manually searching PubMed across transplant surgery, machine learning, and survival analysis — interests that no single journal alert could cover.

The service is currently in free beta, limited to healthcare professionals and researchers. It is not intended for, and should not be used by, students seeking to have academic work written on their behalf.

Papers and clinical disclaimer

All papers are sourced from PubMed/MEDLINE (publicly indexed, peer-reviewed biomedical literature). AI-generated summaries are provided for literature awareness purposes only. They do not constitute medical advice and must not be used as a substitute for clinical judgement or direct review of source publications.