How do I access the Virtual Patients (AI patients)?
AI-powered virtual patients are available for many of our pre-made OSCE stations, and you can also create your own.
You can interact with these virtual patients to practise communication and clinical reasoning skills. Watch a demo here.
Virtual patients are designed for solo use. If you’d prefer to practise with your study partners, check out our Group Practice Mode.
All users have access to virtual patients. However, to access our most advanced AI-powered virtual patients, including the voice feature, you will need to purchase AI credits.
Virtual patients are available for many types of stations, including:
History taking
Long cases
Examination
Counselling
To filter for stations that include a virtual patient:
Go to the OSCE Stations menu
Click the black filter icon in the top-right corner
Enable the Virtual patient toggle
To start a session with a virtual patient choose the Virtual patient option on the station page. If the Virtual patient option isn’t visible, the station does not currently support this feature.
When you launch a virtual patient station, you'll first be shown the candidate instructions. These describe the scenario and outline what you're expected to do (e.g. take a focused history).
After reviewing the instructions, you’ll be asked to choose how you want to run the station:
Standard mode - available to all users. You can interact with the patient via text or voice. If you have AI credits, you can toggle the Patient voice option to hear spoken replies.
Advanced mode - with real-time interaction. This provides the most realistic simulation of a live conversation and AI credits per session.
Yes! This feature is available for history taking and counselling stations.
If you’ve created your own station (or generated one using AI), you’ll see a Generate virtual patient button within the station editor.
Clicking this will convert your patient script into an AI-powered virtual patient.
The more detail you provide in the patient instructions, the better the result
This option will only appear if your patient instructions are at least 500 characters
You can update or improve the script any time by editing the patient instructions
You can interact with these virtual patients to practise communication and clinical reasoning skills. Watch a demo here.
Virtual patients are designed for solo use. If you’d prefer to practise with your study partners, check out our Group Practice Mode.
All users have access to virtual patients. However, to access our most advanced AI-powered virtual patients, including the voice feature, you will need to purchase AI credits.
Finding OSCE stations with virtual patients
Virtual patients are available for many types of stations, including:
History taking
Long cases
Examination
Counselling
To filter for stations that include a virtual patient:
Go to the OSCE Stations menu
Click the black filter icon in the top-right corner
Enable the Virtual patient toggle
Interacting with the virtual patient
To start a session with a virtual patient choose the Virtual patient option on the station page. If the Virtual patient option isn’t visible, the station does not currently support this feature.
When you launch a virtual patient station, you'll first be shown the candidate instructions. These describe the scenario and outline what you're expected to do (e.g. take a focused history).
After reviewing the instructions, you’ll be asked to choose how you want to run the station:
Standard mode - available to all users. You can interact with the patient via text or voice. If you have AI credits, you can toggle the Patient voice option to hear spoken replies.
Advanced mode - with real-time interaction. This provides the most realistic simulation of a live conversation and AI credits per session.
Can I make my own virtual patient?
Yes! This feature is available for history taking and counselling stations.
If you’ve created your own station (or generated one using AI), you’ll see a Generate virtual patient button within the station editor.
Clicking this will convert your patient script into an AI-powered virtual patient.
The more detail you provide in the patient instructions, the better the result
This option will only appear if your patient instructions are at least 500 characters
You can update or improve the script any time by editing the patient instructions
Updated on: 08/04/2025
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