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Better than nothing, or better than us?
Adoption of generative AI in medical education has outrun the evidence, the competencies and the institutional rules, with a new meta-analysis unable to…
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Introducing SimPatient: AI-Powered Virtual Patients for Healthcare Training
SimPatient combines lifelike avatars, a proprietary clinical language model, and a diversity engine to scale communication training worldwide.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
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Can AI play the patient?
Nearly half of all implemented AI in clinical skills teaching is now a virtual patient, but the evidence for what it does to learning is still thin.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
What AI does to the doctor's mind
Four 2026 papers argue the danger is not that the model gets it wrong, but that it sounds right, and our assessments cannot tell the difference.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
The AI gap isn't about enthusiasm
Outside the US and Europe there is near-universal appetite for AI combined with very limited access.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
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AI-Generated Medical Imagery and Representation: Do We All Get to be Seen?
A student’s take on our study testing whether AI image generators fairly represent skin tones in dermatology.
 • Ayla
Conference Report: AMEE goes big on AI in Barcelona
My reflection on my first AMEE conference, where AI research is everywhere, but widespread adoption still lags
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Can Artificial Intelligence Write Exam Questions?
Our recent study demonstrates the promise and pitfalls of letting large language models draft SBAs
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD

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Introducing SimPatient: AI-Powered Virtual Patients for Healthcare Training
SimPatient combines lifelike avatars, a proprietary clinical language model, and a diversity engine to scale communication training worldwide.
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
Introducing MCQ Maker: an evidence-based genAI tool to create SBAs
MCQ Maker, now running OpenAI GPT-5, can boost your question banks while guaranteeing exam security
 • Andrew O'Malley PhD
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I'm a medical educator. I read the literature so you don't have to, then write one short letter every Monday. For faculty, residents, curriculum leads, and anyone in higher ed who teaches.
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