155 – The future of healthcare communication training: Virtual Patients. Will Pamment and Aiden Roberts, SimConverse
Did you know that 60 to 80% of medical errors are attributable to communication breakdown?
Will Pamment and Aiden Roberts are the cofounders of SimConverse. They’re two medical students who are passionate about solving the issues in healthcare communication that lead to harming patients.
SimConverse creates Artificially Intelligent virtual patients for healthcare communication training. It is a platform for structured communication training.
In this episode, Pete, Will and Aiden chat about using better, more scalable and accessible ways of training communications skills to hopefully eliminate numerous medical errors and maybe save lots of lives.
This episode helps us to understand how one solution can solve two issues. Learn how you can use virtual patients to improve healthcare communication training, making it more structured, lessening medical errors. Also, get a better understanding of how medical schools approach communication skills and how it can be improved.
In this episode, you go on a journey to explore a new perspective on solving communication issues in healthcare.
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