ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2021
Virtual Standardized Patients for Mental Health Education.
Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development and preliminary evaluation of a virtual standardized patient system for psychiatric interview training.BMC psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Virtual Standardized Patients for Improving Clinical Thinking Ability Training in Residents: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR medical education · 2025Trial
- Virtual Standardized Patients Versus Traditional Academic Training for Improving Clinical Competence Among Traditional Chinese Medicine Students: Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Patient experience and psychologists' attitudes toward AI in psychological treatment: A topic-modeling study.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- WiseMind: a knowledge-guided multi-agent framework for accurate and empathetic psychiatric diagnosis.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Clinicians' Experiences of an Online Training Programme in Assessing and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder in Youth: A Qualitative Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Enhancing professional communication training in higher education through artificial intelligence(AI)-integrated exercises: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Allies not enemies-creating a more empathetic and uplifting patient experience through technology and art.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2025Review
- Suicide prevention safety planning in the US Department of defense: Qualitative assessment of training.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- Roles, Users, Benefits, and Limitations of Chatbots in Health Care: Rapid Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Review
- Psychologists and Integrated Behavioral Health Simulation Training: A Survey of Medical Educators and Perspectives of Directors of Clinical Training.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2024Article
- Developing a virtual patient: design, usability, and learning effect in communication skills training.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Identifying the areas of low self-reported confidence of internal medicine residents in geriatrics: a descriptive study of findings from a structured geriatrics skills assessment survey.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Research Hotspots and Trend Exploration on the Clinical Translational Outcome of Simulation-Based Medical Education: A 10-Year Scientific Bibliometric Analysis From 2011 to 2021.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe training of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals requires education on a range of interpersonal, communication, and psychotherapy techniques. Classroom and workshop training must be augmented by experiential learning with feedback for skill implementation with fidelity. Virtual standardized patients (VSPs) are computerized conversational agents that can support experiential learning through standardized, consequence-free training environments at reduced costs. RECENT
findingsResearch on mental health VSPs is rife with feasibility and acceptability pilot studies across various training populations and settings. Users have generally reported positive reactions to training with VSPs, though frustrations with some VSP speech recognition or VSP response relevance has been reported. Several studies have demonstrated a promising transfer of clinical skills from VSP training to human standardized patients and randomized trials supporting improved skill relative to reading or academic study are encouraging. As technology improves and natural language processing and accurate computer response generation for broad ranging conversational topics emerges, the field would benefit from research on the characteristics of effective VSPs for a range of purposes and trainee populations. Well-designed randomized evaluations of VSPs relative to best practices in education are needed, particularly regarding the impact of VSPs on clinical practice among actual patients.
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