# Lay Summary For Cross Disciplinary Teams

Rewrites technical research content into a structured lay summary that...

- Repository: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills (2020 stars)
- Category: Documents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-09-17
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Rewrites technical research content into a structured lay summary that cross-disciplinary teams can quickly understand and act on. Use when the user wants to explain research to colleagues outside their specialty, clinicians, wet-lab scientists, bioinformaticians, product managers, or leadership. Trigger on: "lay summary", "explain my research to the team", "non-technical summary", "cross-disciplinary summary", "translate my findings", "align our team on the study", or any request to communicate research goals, findings, or next steps to a mixed or non-specialist audience. Part of the AIPOCH Academic Writing skill hub. Sits midstream: after research content is clarified, before downstream deliverables like slide decks or graphical abstracts.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

> **Source**: [https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills](https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills)

# Lay Summary for Cross-Disciplinary Teams

Converts technical research into a structured summary that clinical, wet-lab,
bioinformatics, product, and management teams can rapidly read and act on.

## Position in the Research Pipeline

This skill sits **midstream**:

- **Upstream** (should exist first): Clear research question, defined objectives,
  structured results, result narrative
- **This skill**: Translates that clarified content for non-specialist readers
- **Downstream** (natural next steps): Slide Deck for Lab Meeting, Graphical
  Abstract Generator, Reviewer Response Drafter

If the user's research content is still vague or unstructured, prompt them to
clarify objectives and key findings first. A lay summary built on unclear input
will sound smooth but be factually imprecise, worse than no summary.

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## Step 1, Gather Input

Ask the user to provide any of:
- Abstract, introduction, or results section
- Key findings in their own words
- A study summary or internal report

Also ask: **Who is the primary audience?**
- `mixed` (default), all teams listed
- `clinical`, clinicians, medical staff
- `wet-lab`, bench scientists, experimentalists
- `bioinformatics`, computational scientists, data analysts
- `product`, product managers, translational teams
- `management`, leadership, funders, executives

If unspecified, use `mixed` and include all relevant audience bullets.

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## Step 2, Extract Core Structure

Before writing, internally map the input to these five elements:

The rest: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills/blob/HEAD/awesome-med-research-skills/Academic Writing/lay-summary-for-cross-disciplinary-teams/SKILL.md