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New app uses AI to help Calgary medical students practise interacting with patients

Sep 22, 2023 | 10:20 AM

CALGARY – A Calgary medical student has developed an app that allows future doctors to work on their diagnostic and communication skills before they set up their practices.

Eddie Guo, a second-year student at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, says one of the challenges in medical school is becoming better at interacting with patients.

He says students do get to see standardized patients, played by actors, but it’s expensive and the time is limited.

Guo says as a result, he created an app that features a variety of different patients who can be interviewed on the computer.

He says the AI patients can answer different questions and make suggestions for improvement.

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Guo says the app has been well received so far and is being used by health-care trainees from Canada and across the world including Europe, India, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 21, 2023.

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