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PAL: Designing Conversational Agents as Scalable, Cooperative Patient Simulators for Palliative-Care Training
Neil K. R. Sehgal, Hita Kambhamettu, Allen Chang, Andrew Zhu, Lyle Ungar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02122

PAL: Designing Conversational Agents as Scalable, Cooperative Patient Simulators for Palliative-Care Training
Effective communication in serious illness and palliative care is essential but often under-taught due to limited access to training resources like standardized patients. We present PAL (Palliative Assisted Learning-bot), a conversational system that simulates emotionally nuanced patient interactions and delivers structured feedback grounded in an existing empathy-based framework. PAL supports text and voice modalities and is designed to scaffold clinical skill-building through repeated, low-co…