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July 29, 2025

Large language model-based patient simulation to foster communication skills in healthcare professionals: User-centered development and usability study (Preprint)

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AEAhmed ElhilaliANAndy Suy-Huor NgoDRDaniel Reichenpfader

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Overview

Usability test reveals effective patient simulation tool for communication training in medical education, suggesting improvements through user feedback.

Key Points

  • The digital tool effectively simulates patient conversations, fostering communication skills in medical education.
  • Usability testing achieved a mean SUS score of 91.5, indicating excellent system usability according to medical students.
  • Grok 3 was rated the best LLM for patient simulations, showing strong performance in response realism.
  • Integrating an automated feedback mechanism could further enhance the educational potential of the simulation tool.

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Elhilali et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a093fe6551bb0af8ced31https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.81271
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