{"id":116797,"date":"2025-09-03T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116797\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:08:08","slug":"coventry-student-medics-to-train-on-ai-virtual-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116797\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry student medics to train on AI virtual patient"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medical students at a university can now hold real-time conversations with a virtual patient that uses artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n

The AI-generated avatar, known as Sarah, was created by Coventry University to help future healthcare workers<\/a> practice on patients.<\/p>\n

The university said the fifth version of the technology, which is guided by ChatGPT-optimised prompts, can deliver unique answers to specific questions, rather than just listing symptoms.<\/p>\n

PhD student Juliana Samson said the enhanced virtual patient talks in a “more natural style of communication” that would be more consistent with a person with her lived experience.<\/p>\n

“Sarah’s answers are more consistent with the intended history that we want the students to get out of the scenario,” she added.<\/p>\n

Ms Samson, who led the development project, said the avatar provided a “safe space” for students to practise without being under the pressure and spotlight of clinical practice in a real-life scenario.<\/p>\n

She hopes the virtual patient will eventually be part of education tools to help train students in areas such as occupational therapy and physiotherapy.<\/p>\n

“Students have told us it will help to build their confidence, especially for those who are maybe earlier on in the programme, and they enjoyed the activity,” she said. <\/p>\n

“There’s a potential if we could optimise the technology to work particularly with occupational therapy on therapeutic modes of conversation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical students at a university can now hold real-time conversations with a virtual patient that uses artificial intelligence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-116797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}