Virtual patients help boost safety and quality care in medicine

No humans are harmed in the medical training invented by Dr. Karim Qayumi and his team of CyberPatient developers.

The interactive software technology developed in Vancouver is designed to let medical students make mistakes on computer-generated “patients” and is intended to fill gaps in medical learning by offering virtual patients that mimic medical scenarios, just as flight simulators teach pilots.

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