Medical simulation with realistic virtual patients
SimChat helps healthcare educators deliver virtual patient consultations at scale, with transcripts, feedback and reflection tools to support communication practice and clinical reasoning for students, trainees and practising healthcare workers.
Built by the team behind Geeky Medics. Trusted by medical schools, hospitals and healthcare organisations.
- Clinical reasoning
- Consultation skills
- Communication
- OSCE preparation
- Standardised patient (SP) practice
- Formative feedback
- Assessment
Why SimChat
Flexible practice between teaching, placements and assessments
Learners can consult with virtual patients, repeat cases, review transcripts and reflect on their performance.
Virtual patients for realistic consultation practice
Learners interact with AI-driven virtual patients through text, voice or video. Each patient responds in role like a standardised patient (SP), so learners can practise history taking, counselling, information giving and difficult conversations in their own words.
Feedback linked to the consultation
Each consultation creates a transcript, giving learners and educators a clear record of what was said. Feedback can be linked to faculty-authored checklists, rubrics and learning objectives.
Built around your curriculum
Use SimChat's ready-made library or create your own cases from existing patient scripts, OSCE checklists, clinical vignettes and local teaching materials.
Scenarios can be organised into groups, tagged by specialty or theme and mapped to curriculum domains and topics, helping educators review coverage and deploy cases consistently across cohorts.
Designed for clinical education
SimChat has been developed by the Geeky Medics team, drawing on experience in OSCE preparation, clinical communication and healthcare education.
Trusted by medical schools, hospitals and healthcare organisations.
How SimChat works
Create, practise and review
Create
Start with a patient script, OSCE checklist, clinical vignette or local teaching document. SimChat helps generate an interactive virtual patient case that educators can review and refine.
Practise
Learners consult with the virtual patient in text, voice or video mode. They ask questions, respond to cues and practise the consultation in their own words.
Review
Learners and educators can review the transcript, checklist results and feedback. This turns each consultation into an opportunity for reflection, discussion and improvement.
Scenarios
Ready-made and custom scenarios
SimChat includes a growing library of virtual patient cases across specialties, presentations and consultation styles.
- 800+ virtual patient OSCE scenariosScenarios for history taking, communication skills, counselling, information giving and clinical reasoning.
- 200+ GP consultation scenariosMapped to the RCGP SCA curriculum, supporting consultation practice for GP trainees.
- Text, voice and video readyEach scenario can be used in text mode, voice mode or with an interactive video avatar, depending on the learning objective and delivery context.
Tools for medical educators
Everything you need to run consultation practice at scale
AI scenario generator
Create a first draft of a virtual patient from your existing teaching materials.
Learn moreFaculty-authored checklists
Define the criteria learners should be assessed against for each scenario.
Automated feedback
Give learners immediate feedback linked to the conversation they had and the criteria you define.
Transcript review
Review what was actually said during the consultation, support learner reflection and add educator feedback where needed.
Learn moreCurriculum mapping
Map scenarios to modules, specialties, learning outcomes or curriculum frameworks, including the MLA.
Cohort and access controls
Assign scenarios to specific groups, cohorts or organisations.
Flexible delivery
Learners access SimChat through a standard browser, with no specialist hardware, headsets or software installation required.
Security and compliance
UK-hosted, GDPR-compliant and Cyber Essentials certified.
Learn moreSingle sign-on
SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect for institutional logins, with just-in-time provisioning so faculty and learner accounts are created automatically. Works with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and other standards-based identity providers.
LMS integration
Launch learners straight from your LMS into a specific scenario with LTI 1.3, with accounts provisioned on first launch and scores synced back to your gradebook. Works with Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace and other LTI 1.3-compliant platforms.
