RxPert
April 2024 - Present
A digital tool designed to act as a virtual pharmacy patient to help students better prepare for patient actor tests.
Problem
Lack of accessible real life patient practice leads students to fail their final exam which involves a mock pharmacy visit with a patient actor.
Common Pitfalls of Students
Empathy Statements
Agenda Setting
Reflection Statements
Personlized Practice
Students get to pick whether they want to work through a full patient visit or focus on specific parts to address their pitfalls.
Oral Interaction
Instead of limiting students to interacting with their patient through text, they can also interact with them through voice.
Lesson Coordination
Professors are able to digitize their skills lab for students to access wherever, as well as making additional practice scenarios for students.
Challenge
How to balance the need for more practice with the hesitancy of AI adoption?
"Capstone practice is so much harder with AI, but if you do it in pieces and just have students practice that, then it's more doable in the short term"
Professor at the UW School of Pharmacy
AI evaluation tends to be better on smaller subsets of tasks.
This allows students to practice the interaction parts they want, with a more accurate evaluation.
Project Currently
We will be conducting research during fall quarter with the UW school of pharmacy to compare faculty vs. AI assesments.