How to Ask Consult Great Questions (With Examples)
Effectively asking Consult questions will improve the information provided to you.
- Best Use Practices For Consult
- What Kind Of Questions Work Best For Consult?
- Consult Question and Prompt Templates
- Related Articles
Consult is Jiro's AI-powered chat tool, designed to provide you with answers to medical questions. By tailoring your questions to Consult, you can tailor its output to your needs.
At A Glance
- Framing questions in Consult
- Giving Consult context to personalize answers
- Best actions for your prompts or questions
- Example questions
1. Best Use Practices For Consult
| Use | Style | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| Comparisons | Framing | To compare between different approaches or reasonable options. |
| Evidence refresh | Framing | For being reminded of specific information related to a topic that you can't recall. |
| Connecting guidelines to real-world scenarios | Framing | Compare your clinical guidelines to the most common practices. |
| Literature Synthesis | Framing | Ask for summaries, compare guideline recommendations, or paste multiple abstracts for Consult to analyze. |
| Practice or Peer Benchmarking | Framing | Use Consult to assess where you are similar, different, or where you can improve related to your peers. |
| Jiro use questions | Framing | Ask Consult for additional info on Metrics, clarification on different tabs, and best uses for Jiro. |
| Workflow or Quality Improvement | Framing | Ask Consult for oppportunities to improve or where solutions for risks that may exist for your patient groups. |
| Include relevant non-identifiable patient details | Context | Providing non-identifiable info can help Consult personalize results to your patient cohort. |
| Flag what you already know | Context | Tell Consult what you already know and be explicit where you need help to lower generalizations. |
| Ask for limits or caveats | Context | If specified, Consult will explain limitations of its answers or let you know if the response exceeds strong evidence. |
2. What Kind Of Questions Work Best For Consult?
Be Action Oriented
When asking questions to Consult, use verbs like “summarize”, “compare”, “suggest”, “explain”, or “draft”, all of these examples prompt Consult to drive value to you in its response.
Specify The Clinical Scenario & Population
Clarifying details around your clinical population can help Consult personalize answers. Providing non-identifiable information including age, sex, key comorbidities, setting (inpatient vs. outpatient), and constraints produce better answers with less generalization.
Give Consult A Format To Provide
If you are looking for a specific type of output in Consult’s answer, detail it within your question. For example, if you want Consult to provide a bullet-point summary or a specific organization of your answers, let Consult know exactly what you want to receive in a response.
Ask Consult To Surface Its Evidence
Consult is created to provide answers through highly cited journals, authors, institutions, and information. For any response, ask Consult to surface its evidence to learn where it came from.
3. Consult Question and Prompt Templates
"I have a [insert non-identifiable info] patient with [condition 1], [condition 2], and [condition 3]. Based on guidelines and real-world data, how does [treatment 1] compare to [treatment 2] for this particular patient?"
"How do different strategies for treating [condition] compare in clinical trials to real world data for [patient group]?"
"Please summarize the latest high-quality evidence on [therapy] for [condition] in this [patient group]."
"Summarize the latest evidence and guidelines for managing [condition] in [patient cohort]."
"I'm planning on treating [patient non-identifiable info] with [drug or treatment] that has [comorbidities]. What does the evidence say about benefits and harms in similar patients?"
"I recently read 3 literature summaries, can you synthesize the key points, identify where they agree or disagree, and suggest how they could be useful for me?"
"I'm considering [treatment 1] vs. [treatment 2] for [condition], how do the outcomes compare in real-world scenarios?"
"Explain how this Metric in my dashboard is calculated and what it means."
"If I only have limited time to use Jiro while I am working, what are the most useful practices to make the most of my time in the platform?"
4. Related Articles
5. Version History & Approval
Updated: 03/11/2026
Reviewed by: [Name, Title]
Approved by: [Name, Title]