{"id":118174,"date":"2025-09-06T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118174\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:00:13","slug":"coventry-student-medics-to-train-on-ai-virtual-patient-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/118174\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry student medics to train on AI virtual patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sarah&#8217;s answers are more consistent with the intended history that we want the students to get out of the scenario,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Samson, who led the development project, said the avatar provided a &#8220;safe space&#8221; for students to practise without being under the pressure and spotlight of clinical practice in a real-life scenario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;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,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a potential if we could optimise the technology to work particularly with occupational therapy on therapeutic modes of conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sarah&#8217;s answers are more consistent with the intended history that we want the students to get out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-118174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}