Formative participants found human SP practice valuable for embodied cues but episodic and unevenly connected to individualized feedback¶

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q2 i? Formative participants treated human SPs as valuable but mostly tied to formal examinations, limiting repeated self-directed practice and individualized review. → Zhiqi Gao 2026

Evidence¶

Zhiqi Gao 2026¶

Zhiqi Gao, Huarui Luo, Guo Zhu, Bingquan Zhang, Dongyijie Primo Pan, Yizhan Feng, Jiahuan Pei, Jie Li, Benyou Wang. (2026). MedEasy: Designing AI Standardized Patients for Clinical Consultation Training. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17512 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.17512

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Formative interview finding: a participant reported that SP access was mostly tied to examinations, stating "we can only really encounter SPs during exams, so in daily practice we mainly rely on models." Participants also described feedback in exam settings as mostly indirect.

"At our school, we can only really encounter SPs during exams, so in daily practice we mainly rely on models."

Discussion¶

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