Dr Andrew O'Malley
Medical education, simulated-patient teaching, assessment, and the research questions that started the work.
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What started as a research curiosity became a shared build.
Three years in
We began with a question, not a pitch deck.
SimPatient started three years ago as a research curiosity inside medical education: could AI-simulated patients give students more safe, structured, repeatable practice before they met real patients?
Answering that question needed more than one discipline. It brought together people who understand clinical teaching, communication skills, AI systems, learning research, assessment, language, and product design.
The platform is the result of that mixture: research-led, built close to educators, and still shaped by the practical realities of cohorts, rubrics, feedback, and time.
The people behind it
A multidisciplinary group, working from the same question.
Mr Sayed Murad
AI engineering, product design, language equity, and the practical work of building usable tools.
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Dr Sandhya Duggal
Clinical communication, medical sociology, health research, and the social context around patient conversations.
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Dr Xining Wang
Human-computer interaction, technology-enhanced learning, evaluation, and evidence that the platform is doing useful work.
Connect on LinkedIn →We are still close to the original curiosity: make the practice richer, make the feedback useful, and make access less dependent on who has spare time in the timetable.
The path in
Bring SimPatient into your programme.
Primary
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A 30-minute call with a clinician on our team. We’ll show the wizard, run a live consultation in your preferred mode, and walk through how rubric grading would map to your existing curriculum.
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Pilot programme
Run a 4-week pilot with a single cohort. We’ll help you set up your org, import your existing marking scheme, and share a written report at the end measuring usage, learner sentiment, and rubric performance.
Request a pilotAll pricing is per-organisation and includes unlimited learners. Get tailored pricing on the call.