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LLMs as Clinical Instruments—Toward Verifiable Reasoning

JAMA Psychiatry 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.2211

July 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint discusses considerations in training mental health clinicians and implementing institutional workflows to use large language models (LLMs) as clinical instruments for improving care.

Corresponding Author: Martin P. Paulus, MD, Laureate Institute for Brain Research, 6655 S Yale Ave, Tulsa, OK 74136 (mpaulus@laureateinstitute.org).

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