Evidence behind every result
Learner excerpts are shown where captured, unverifiable quotes are dropped, and required behaviors that were not seen are marked not observed.
For Simulation Center Directors and Educators
Communication Simulation for Simulation Centers and Skills Labs
Learners hold spoken conversations with AI patients, family members, and clinical colleagues who respond to what they say, in any modern web browser. Use it before and between your facilitated simulations so communication practice continues across the term, with evidence educators can review after every completed attempt.
Free trial for approved medical colleges, nursing colleges, universities, and simulation centers. Hospital-run programs, including hospital-based simulation centers, begin with a paid, bounded proof run.
Where It Fits
More practice between the sessions you already run
Simulation-based healthcare education depends on educator time, standardized patients, and skills-lab scheduling. Lingua CoPilot Medical adds communication practice around those sessions without replacing them.
Cases change the person, the pressure, and the setting, so a learner can practice the same communication skill with a different patient, family member, or colleague each time, including interruption, emotion, hierarchy, and time pressure. Learners can practice at any hour, without waiting for a scheduled session.
Whether your center supports simulation-based medical education, nursing skills labs, or both, educators can see what each learner said and missed without observing every attempt in person.
One Suggested Pattern
Before, between, and after each facilitated session
One way to use Lingua CoPilot Medical in a simulation program, not a requirement. Learners can also practice on their own or within an educator-led workshop.
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Before a session
Learners complete one Lingua CoPilot Medical attempt on a related case, without hints, so educators can see where each learner starts.
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Your session, run as usual
Your educators run the session with standardized patients, manikins or peers, and lead the debrief as they normally would.
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Between sessions
Learners keep practicing on other cases that exercise the same skill: first with live hints where your institution enables coaching, then a separate attempt without hints.
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Educator review
Educators look at the evidence for the skill they are tracking and use it to plan the next session, the next cases, and who needs more support.
Then the cycle repeats with the next session, so practice continues across the term instead of stopping when a session ends.
Every completed Lingua CoPilot Medical attempt ends with an optional self-guided debrief, then the score report.
One Program Example
SBAR escalation calls for nursing students, across a term
An illustrative plan for one cohort and one behavior. The timing is an example, not a required schedule.
The behavior educators track
Does the call end with a clear request: the next action needed, who will do it, and by when? And does that request hold when the receiver interrupts or asks for SBAR quickly?
| When | What students do | What educators decide |
|---|---|---|
| Start of term | Each student completes one SBAR escalation case in Lingua CoPilot Medical, without hints. | Which behavior to track and which cases to assign. The cohort’s first attempts show where the skills-lab session should focus. |
| Skills-lab session | The cohort takes part in your usual SBAR session, and your facilitator leads the debrief. | What the session and debrief emphasize, for example keeping the request clear when the receiver pushes back. |
| Following weeks | Students practice SBAR cases where the receiver interrupts or asks for SBAR quickly, with live hints if coaching is on, then a separate attempt without hints on a comparable case. | Whether coaching is on, and which follow-up case is comparable: the same behavior, similar difficulty, a different person or pressure. |
| Mid-term review | Students revisit their own reports before the next class discussion. | Who needs another facilitated session or direct observation, and what the class discussion covers, for example a request that names an action but no timeframe. |
| Before clinical placement | One more attempt without hints, on an SBAR case the student has not seen. | Whether the behavior holds without prompts on a comparable case, and what to revisit in the next term. |
Reading the comparison
Compare like with like: look at the evidence for the tracked behavior, on cases of similar difficulty, and note whether coaching was on for each attempt. A stronger later attempt shows what the student did in that simulation. It does not by itself establish competence in clinical practice.
Free resources for the skills-lab side
- SBAR Scenario Builder: a free pack for nursing educators, with scenario frames, receiver scripts, debrief questions, and two checklists for building your own SBAR session.
- SBAR Audio Handoff Discussion Pack: seven synthetic recorded handoffs for a class discussion about what a clear request sounds like. They are authored recordings, not Lingua CoPilot Medical sessions.
Case availability varies by language. Explore the Structured Clinical Handoffs (SBAR) station
What Educators Can Review
Evidence from each Lingua CoPilot Medical attempt
Detected safety-critical errors
When the engine detects a safety-critical step spoken incorrectly, that step is flagged for educator review and not credited.
Saved reflections
When a learner works through the self-guided debrief, educators can open the saved reflection, including a partial one, alongside the performance report. Reflections are never scored.
Individual and cohort review
Educators can compare a learner’s attempts over time and look at patterns across a cohort. Marks, progression and remediation decisions stay with educators.
Learners and Stations
Matched to the learner’s role
Each station is written for particular learner roles. These are the current matches; availability varies by station, case, learner role, and language.
Undergraduate medical students
MBBS colleges planning AETCOM communication practice can also start from the AETCOM page. AETCOM Communication Simulation
Postgraduate trainees and doctors in training
- Breaking Bad News (SPIKES)
- Patient Safety Incident Disclosure
- Workplace Violence Prevention
- OT Team Communication
In OT Team Communication, selected cases put the learner in the anesthesiologist role.
Nursing students and new nurses
- Structured Clinical Handoffs (SBAR)
- Patient Education & Teach-Back
- Crisis De-escalation
- OT Team Communication
In OT Team Communication, cases cover circulating, scrub and OT nurse roles.
Operating theatre (OT) technicians
Selected Operating Theatre Team Communication cases put the learner in the OT technician role. Current cases do not cover learner roles in other allied health professions.
Scope Boundary
Communication practice around your program, not a replacement for it
Hands-on skills, team simulation, and facilitated debriefing remain with your center and its educators.
What the current platform supports
- Spoken patient, family, and clinical-team conversations
- Practice before, between, or within your facilitated sessions, on campus or away from it
- Evidence educators can review for each learner and across a cohort
What remains outside the current scope
- Analyzing or debriefing standardized-patient, manikin, or peer encounters
- Procedures, physical examination, manikins, or equipment handling
- In-situ simulation or testing of clinical workflows and systems
- Facilitated debriefing for complex, team, emotionally charged, or high-stakes simulations
- Certifying competence, or deciding marks and progression
Questions
Frequently asked
Does Lingua CoPilot Medical replace standardized patients?
No. It adds repeatable, on-demand conversation practice before and between your facilitated simulations, so you can reserve standardized patients and facilitated debriefing for encounters where human participation matters most.
Do we need a facilitated session to use Lingua CoPilot Medical?
No. Learners can practice without any facilitated session. These pages describe practice cycles that stand on their own:
Can learners use it during a facilitated workshop?
Yes. Learners can complete individual Lingua CoPilot Medical attempts within an educator-led workshop, on a laptop, desktop, or mobile device. The pattern on this page is one suggested use, not a requirement.
Does Lingua CoPilot Medical analyze our standardized-patient or manikin sessions?
No. It analyzes and gives feedback only on conversations held in Lingua CoPilot Medical, not on standardized-patient, manikin, or peer encounters. Those encounters, and their debriefs, stay with your educators.
Does the self-guided debrief replace facilitated debriefing?
No. It is a short, optional reflection after each completed Lingua CoPilot Medical attempt, before the score report. Facilitated debriefing remains the standard for complex cases and for your own sessions.
Who chooses the cases and reviews the evidence?
Your educators choose the station, the cases, and the order. Our team can help check that the cases fit your session and set when coaching is available. Authorized educators review the evidence, and marks, progression, and remediation decisions stay with them.
What do learners need?
Any modern web browser, a microphone and audio output, and an internet connection. No manikin, headset, or app install is needed, so learners can practice on campus or away from it.
Can cases match the scenarios our center already runs?
Our team can configure custom cases around your local workflows, patient population and communication standards across US, UK, Australian and Indian healthcare contexts. English is supported across these contexts. For India, we support nine regional languages. Existing case and language coverage varies; we agree on the selection and any custom work with your team.
Which languages are supported?
The established communication stations support nine Indian languages (Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, and Marathi) plus healthcare-specific English variants for India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Availability varies by station and case.
Start With One Session You Already Run
Add practice around one session, then review the evidence
Pick a station that matches a session you already run, add practice around it, and review the evidence with your educators. The trial is free for approved medical colleges, nursing colleges, universities, and simulation centers. Hospital-run programs, including hospital-based simulation centers, begin with a paid, bounded proof run.