TFG - Clinical interview simulator with LLM-based virtual patients
Introduction My Bachelor’s Thesis consisted of designing and developing an AI-assisted clinical simulation web platform: an application where medical students practice clinical interviewing by conversing via chat with realistic virtual patients generated using Large Language Models (LLMs). The project originated from a collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine at the USC and the IRLab research group: Jorge López Castromán, professor of Communication and Psychiatry at the Medicine Degree, provided the clinical need and validated all medical content. Miguel Anxo Pérez Vila and Javier Parapar López supervised the thesis and provided the IRLab’s computing infrastructure. Why The clinical interview is arguably the most complex competency a future doctor must acquire: it does not follow a fixed protocol and requires continuous adaptation to the patient’s responses, silences, and emotions. In psychiatry, where there are no complementary tests that can replace dialogue, the accuracy of the diagnosis depends on it. ...