AI Readiness for Clinicians and Faculty

You're not behind on AI.You just haven't been shownwhere it actually fits.

You became a clinician to treat people. A faculty member to teach. Not to spend your nights on documentation, rubrics, and scheduling, and not to figure out AI on top of all of it. I help healthcare and education teams find where AI actually fits, what's safe, and what's worth building. Then I build it.

20+ years clinical experienceClinical faculty at Midwestern UniversityFounder, Modern Pain Care
The Problem

Everyone says you should be using AI. Nobody shows you where.

Two things are quietly taxing healthcare and education right now. The manual work that eats your evenings, and the noise around AI that makes it impossible to know where to start. Most clinicians and faculty are stuck between both.

The Work

You're spending hours every week on documentation, intake logistics, rubric creation, outcome tracking, placement coordination, syllabus formatting, and content repurposing. The task list never shrinks.

The Feeling

You know AI could help, but every demo is built for a tech company, not a clinic or a classroom. You don't know what's safe with patient data, what's worth your time, or where to even begin. So it stays on the someday list.

The Wrong

Clinicians should be treating patients. Educators should be mentoring students. Figuring out where AI fits shouldn't take a computer science degree, and it shouldn't mean betting your license on a chatbot.

Mark Kargela, physical therapist and AI automation consultant
The Guide

I've been exactly where you are.

I'm Mark Kargela. I'm a physical therapist with 20+ years in chronic pain, a clinical faculty member, and the founder of an education business I built from scratch. A year ago I was drowning in the same manual work you are, and just as unsure about AI. Everyone told me to use it. Nobody told me where. So I started building systems to solve my own problems, one workflow at a time. It changed how I practice, how I teach, and how I run my business.

  • 20+ years clinical experience in chronic pain and orthopedics
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Midwestern University
  • Founder, Modern Pain Care
  • Host, Modern Pain Podcast
  • Real AI automations running in production across clinical, academic, and business workflows

Now I help other clinicians and faculty find where AI fits, then I build it for them. Here's how it works.

The Plan

Three steps. Zero complexity.

01
Readiness

Find where AI fits

Take the free 5-minute AI Readiness Audit. It scores where you actually are across five areas, then shows you the two or three places worth building first. You leave with a clear picture of where AI fits in your world, whether you work with me or not.

02
Delivery

I build the system

I design and build a custom workflow tailored to how you actually work. A clinical intake pipeline, a rubric scoring tool, a placement tracking dashboard, a content engine. A working system built by someone who understands your world, not a generic template.

03
Outcome

You get your time back

You get the finished system, clear documentation, and a readiness roadmap so you know what to tackle next. The hours you were losing every week are now handled. Use that time for patient care, teaching, research, or just going home on time.

Ready to reclaim your time?

Take the AI Readiness Audit
What I Build

What I build for clinicians. What I build for faculty.

Once the audit shows where AI fits, this is the kind of system I build. None of it is a template. All of it is shaped to how you already work.

Healthcare Practice Owners and Clinicians

  • Intake and scheduling automation
  • Patient education content pipelines
  • Outcomes tracking and reporting workflows
  • Marketing and social media automation
  • Documentation and clinical note support tools

Faculty and Clinical Education Coordinators

  • Rubric creation tools aligned to program competencies
  • AI-powered clinical case study generators
  • Interactive AI patient simulations for clinical reasoning practice
  • Syllabus generators matching program templates and accreditation standards
  • Clinical placement dashboards (site capacity, student assignments, coordinator workflows)
The Stakes

What happens if nothing changes?

Another semester buried in manual rubric grading.

Another quarter where your best clinical hours go to admin.

Another year telling yourself you'll figure out the AI thing when you have more time.

And the gap between you and the practices that already did keeps getting wider.

The bottleneck doesn't fix itself. The time doesn't come back.

The Transformation

Imagine this instead.

Your intake process runs itself and patients show up prepared.

Your rubrics score consistently and you spend your evenings somewhere other than your desk.

Your clinical placement data lives in one dashboard instead of four spreadsheets and a shared drive.

Your content goes from recording to published across five platforms without you touching it.

You do the work you were trained to do. The systems handle the rest.

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Issue 01 · the AI that matters across your week
TOOLS

Ambient scribes reach the bedside

Three vendors shipped point-of-care notes this week.

So what: Less typing. Still read every line before you sign.

RESEARCH

A model versus real triage calls

A new trial put an LLM against live intake decisions.

So what: Promising. Not yours to trust alone yet.

SAFETY

Where your chatbot sends patient data

A plain look at what actually leaves the room.

So what: Check the BAA before you paste.

That's the week. No hype, just what's useful.

Mark Kargela, PT, DPT

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