Introduction to our institutional virtual patient platform

Our institutional virtual patient platform allows institutions to create custom AI-powered virtual patients for their students to access.

What is a virtual patient?

A virtual patient is an AI-powered patient that allows students to practise consultation skills in a safe environment. The virtual patient responds naturally to the student’s questions, with both text and speech interactions supported.

Virtual patients are based on human-written scripts, which means you can fully customise each scenario to match the needs of your curriculum. Examples include:

• Taking a history from a patient with chest pain
• Explaining childhood vaccinations to a concerned parent
• Breaking bad news to a patient with a new diagnosis of cancer

Standard mode vs Advanced mode

When students launch a virtual patient station, they will first be shown the candidate instructions. These describe the scenario and outline what they are expected to do (e.g. take a focused history).

After reviewing the instructions, students can choose how to run the station:

• Standard mode – interact with the patient via text or voice. Students can enable the Patient voice option to hear spoken replies.
• Advanced mode – interact in real time for the most realistic simulation of a live consultation.

Features of our institutional virtual patient platform

Our institutional virtual patient platform allows you to:

• Create custom virtual patients for your students to access
• Organise these virtual patients into Circuits (groups of virtual patients)
• Review student transcripts and performance data after they complete your institutional virtual patients

Institutional virtual patients are completely separate from:

• Personal user-created virtual patients
• Geeky Medics virtual patients

Institutions cannot see any data from personal or Geeky Medics virtual patients, and they can only create, manage, and review their own institutional virtual patients.

Updated on: 03/09/2025