Practise taking a history, and find out what you missed.
A simulated patient answers what you actually ask — no more, no less. Take the history, give your differential, then get marked against a full answer key: every mark you earned, every question you didn't ask, and the reasoning for and against each diagnosis.
No account needed to try one. An account saves your scores and marking keys.
Before you start
- Replies may be slow. The simulated patient is still learning to work out what a question is actually asking, and to answer it the way a patient would.
- Use the flag button. Under any reply that sounds awkward, or answers something you didn't ask, there's a flag. Say what was wrong. That feedback is what makes the next answer better — it's the most useful thing you can do here.
- This is practice, not teaching. The cases, the diagnoses and the reasoning are a guide for rehearsing a history. They don't replace medical school or anything you're taught on the wards.
- 1Choose a case
and your year group - 2Take the history
ask whatever you'd ask - 3Give your differential
with what points to and away from it - 4Examine and investigate
and get the findings back - 5Read the breakdown
marks, misses, and the model answer