Large Language Model–Based Patient Simulation to Foster Communication Skills in Health Care Professionals: User-Centered Development and Usability Study

We successfully developed a highly usable patient simulation tool that serves as a foundation for further development. Our results show that while the tool could be effective for communication training, its full potential will only be realized by integrating an automated feedback mechanism to create a complete didactic loop, as requested by the test users. Future work should assess in more depth the differences among the models in simulating psychosocial patient characteristics.