A Promising Solution

Virtual Patients

• Provide targeted training with feedback
• Real time, cost-effective assessment of learner behavior
• Often effective in medical training,
  Rarely used in mental health training

SAMHT - an Intelligent Tutoring System

• Trainees (humans) practice interviewing suicidal youths (avatars)
• Avatars are parameterized, with an intelligent backend
• Trainees make "risk" assessment at end of interview
• Trainee performance can be evaluated, at many levels
• Cost effective solution to practice/feedback/scalability problem?