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This study introduces a virtual patient system enabling medical students to practice history-taking skills with diverse, unseen cases. The system demonstrated adequate performance and usability across multiple medical specialties, proving its feasibility for training.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Clinical Skills Training

Background:

  • Simulated patient consultations enhance medical students' history-taking skills.
  • Existing virtual patient systems often lack multi-case and multi-specialty capabilities.
  • There is a need for robust systems that can handle a large variety of clinical cases without manual intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a virtual patient dialogue system capable of processing new cases without human intervention.
  • To assess the system's performance and usability across multiple medical specialties and with unseen cases.
  • To determine the feasibility and adequacy of a multi-case virtual patient system for medical training.

Main Methods:

  • Designed a patient record model, a knowledge model for history-taking, and a termino-ontological model for natural language processing.
  • Evaluated the system's dialogue quality across 18 medical specialties using 29 unseen cases and 6 development cases.
  • Medical professionals (students, residents, practitioners, researchers) assessed performance via Likert-scale questionnaires and interaction log analysis.

Main Results:

  • The system achieved a mean user evaluation score of 4.06/5 for unseen cases, indicating very good performance.
  • On average, 74.3% of system replies were correct, 14.9% incorrect, and 10.7% cautious.
  • User evaluations showed higher scores for unseen cases compared to development cases, highlighting the system's adaptability.

Conclusions:

  • The developed multi-case virtual patient dialogue system is feasible, performs adequately, and is judged usable for medical training.
  • The system effectively handles a variety of unseen cases across multiple specialties, offering a valuable tool for practicing history-taking.
  • Design choices significantly impact system performance and user experience, providing lessons for future development in medical simulation technology.