Shadyside Rounding Consultant Finder — Copilot Payload Builder

Use this from a computer.

On your computer, go to shadysidehandbook.info and choose the Rounding Consultant link. You can send yourself the link below.

Email link to myself

Phone mode appears automatically on small touch devices. Continue anyway if you still want to build and copy the prompt here.

Builds a Microsoft 365 Copilot prompt for inpatient consults at UPMC Shadyside: which service, whether it rounds on site, how the consult is placed, and who to escalate to.
Use only with UPMC Microsoft 365 Copilot. Do not enter patient identifiers.

This page holds no schedule, roster, or directory data. It only tells Copilot where to look.

Tutorial Prototype

MedTrak is ground truth. This page only tells Copilot where to look.

Copilot cannot see MedTrak, the chart, or any paging system. It can tell you which service to consult and how consults are usually routed at Shadyside. It cannot tell you who is on service right now. Every name and number it returns is a lead to confirm before you page anyone.

Best practice for an inpatient consult

Check MedTrak first, in MyApps. It holds who is actually on service and on call. Nothing on this page replaces it.
If it is timely, call. Reach the consult service directly, or go through the hospital operator. Do not wait on an order to move a time-sensitive question.
Talk clinician to clinician. A thirty-second conversation resolves what a written consult often will not.
Bring one clear question. "Does this need drainage today, and by whom" beats "please evaluate."
Have the background ready. Timeline, relevant labs and imaging, current antibiotics and anticoagulation, prior workup, and the goals of care.

1 Consult request

Search depth

Quick route
Routine question. Shorter prompt, shorter answer. Deep roster search
Enumerates roles, reports what each source returned, and declares its gaps.

Consult service

Which service do you want?

Focus within that service

Named leads to return

Names are always unverified leads. The service and the route are the real answer.

Where in the hospital

Unit — write it in as you say it

Kind of unit

Unit only. No room or bed numbers. Naming the unit lets the prompt ask for that unit's desk phone and the nursing supervisor, when they are officially listed.

What you most need answered

Checked items become the answer's sections, in the order shown here. The search coverage table and the declared-gaps section are always included.

Brief consult question — no PHI

One or two sentences. Describe the clinical problem, not the person. No names, MRNs, dates of birth, room or bed numbers, or account numbers.

Search and verification rules Always on: MedTrak is ground truth. The prompt makes Copilot open with a MedTrak disclaimer, label every name as unverified, and close with a MedTrak confirmation checklist. This cannot be turned off. Ask for unit-level contacts — the unit desk or HUC phone for the unit you named, and the nursing supervisor or administrator on duty, but only where officially listed. Never assembled from a name. Use the consultant-suggestion spreadsheet as leads only, verified elsewhere. Allow official public sources for affiliation and specialty confirmation only, never as the routing answer.

Source order, presence classification, evidence labels, and uncertainty flagging are built into the prompt and are not optional.

2 Payload preview

Get or activate M365

Generated prompt

No prompt yet. Choose a service and press "See prompt".

Prompt length appears here. Deep runs about 11,050 characters, Quick about 7,750.

Before you page anyone, confirm in MedTrak:

The service is the one you actually want.
Who is on service for that team today, at Shadyside.
Whether first call is the fellow, the APP, or the attending.
The current pager or contact number, from MedTrak rather than from the answer.
What changes tonight, this weekend, or over the holiday.

What Deep roster search adds: it lists the roles a service like this has before looking for people, so an unfilled slot becomes visible. It searches the site as well as the specialty, which is what surfaces the clinician who is actually here. Nobody a search returns may be dropped silently. And it ends by naming its own gaps and asking you to fill them.

Tip: activate M365 if needed, open Copilot, select Think Deeper, click the chat box, and paste. If the answer's last section names a gap you can fill, put that person in the suggestion form — it fixes the answer for everyone who asks next.