(Updated April 21, 2026)
Students and educators can find these in the following cases:
These VPEs allow students to practice asking questions and adjusting based on responses—thus developing the real-time communication skills they'll need with actual patients.
After the interview, students receive immediate, personalized feedback based on established competencies for effective interviewing. This creates the experience of having an expert preceptor beside each student.
Over 15,000 conversations have been completed already, by more than 10,000 students, and these encounters have been met with strong positive feedback from students, as evidenced by their ratings and quotes such as:
"I really enjoyed this and found it very helpful. I would love to use this for future practice and development of my interviewing skills."
"Really fun! Way more interactive and thought-invoking than a simple MC or open-ended question."
Learn more about how these were developed and why that process is important in our blog post, entitled "How Educator Expertise Shapes Aquifer's Virtual Patient Encounters."