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e-Learning and Digital Medical Education (1681) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (1178) Tools, Programs and Algorithms (616) Virtual Patients (150) Student/Learners Perceptions and Experiences with Educational Technology (290) New Methods and Approaches in Medical Education (694) Simulation (284) Machine Learning (3378) Robots in Healthcare (275) Chatbots and Conversational Agents (1256) Generative Language Models Including ChatGPT (1677)

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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/63312, first published .
Two nurses review patient data on a computer screen at a hospital reception desk.

Virtual Patient Simulations Using Social Robotics Combined With Large Language Models for Clinical Reasoning Training in Medical Education: Mixed Methods Study

Virtual Patient Simulations Using Social Robotics Combined With Large Language Models for Clinical Reasoning Training in Medical Education: Mixed Methods Study

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Alexander Borg1 Author Orcid Image ;   Carina Georg2 Author Orcid Image ;   Benjamin Jobs1 Author Orcid Image ;   Viking Huss3 Author Orcid Image ;   Kristin Waldenlind3 Author Orcid Image ;   Mini Ruiz4 Author Orcid Image ;   Samuel Edelbring5, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Gabriel Skantze7 Author Orcid Image ;   Ioannis Parodis1, 8 Author Orcid Image
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