King's College London

• Co-produce simulated virtual placements in physiotherapy and pharmacy with students, practitioners and community partners.
• Enhance recruitment and learning by embedding digital literacy, clinical reasoning and patient-centred care.
• Develop pilot modules for integration into existing curricula and interprofessional learning.
• Create scalable digital resources (e.g. simulation scenarios, virtual consultations, AI-enabled feedback).
• Produce a validated evaluation toolkit to measure learning outcomes, placement equivalence and equity impacts.

Using a co-design methodology, the project will integrate simulation-based learning, artificial intelligence, electronic health records and live patient interactions into an immersive virtual platform. Embedded feedback, monitoring and simulated patient input will generate meaningful data. A mixed-methods evaluation will assess quantitative outcomes (e.g. competency achievement, digital literacy, placement equivalence) and qualitative insights from students, educators and service users.