The AI Health Counsellor represents a groundbreaking collaboration between Latote Technology Limited and the School of Biomedical Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This innovative educational tool creates an immersive metaverse clinical environment where health professional students can practice their diagnostic and communication skills through realistic patient interactions.

At the core of this project is our sophisticated AI system powered by fine-tuned LLama-3.1-8b language model architecture. We’ve meticulously trained this model using extensive datasets of prenatal checkup conversations and clinical scenarios involving inborn errors of metabolism, with a special focus on conditions such as:

• Phenylketonuria (PKU)
• Hyperammonemia (Types I and II)
• Urea Cycle Disorders
• Citrullinemia

The resulting AI Health Counsellor (AIhC) delivers remarkably authentic patient interactions that challenge students to apply their clinical knowledge in a safe, controlled environment.

Multiple Clinical Scenarios: Students can choose from diverse cases ranging from prenatal examinations to emergency room situations involving metabolic disorders.

Real-time Interaction: The system enables natural conversational exchanges between the student and virtual patients.

Feedback Mechanism: Detailed scoring and feedback help students refine their communication skills and medical knowledge.

Realistic Virtual Environment: Immersive 3D clinic setting enhances the learning experience.

Self-paced Learning: Students can engage with scenarios at their own pace and repeat interactions as needed.

The AI Health Counsellor transforms medical education by:

1. Building confidence in clinical reasoning and patient communication
2. Providing safe opportunities to practice difficult conversations
3. Allowing students to gain experience with rare metabolic disorders they might not encounter during standard clinical rotations
4. Offering immediate feedback to accelerate learning
5. Creating standardized assessment opportunities for educators

Latote Technology Limited’s expertise in AI and virtual environment development, combined with CUHK’s medical knowledge, has created a truly unique educational tool. The system features:

• Natural language processing capabilities that understand and respond to student inputs
• Adaptive questioning that challenges students based on their responses
• Evaluation algorithms that assess both medical accuracy and communication effectiveness
• A user-friendly interface accessible to students of various technical backgrounds

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