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The Validity of a Virtual Human Experience for Interpersonal Skills Education Kyle Johnsen†, Andrew Raij†, Amy Stevens, MD‡, D. Scott Lind, MD*, Benjamin Lok, Ph.D† †Computer Information Science ‡College Of Medicine *Department of Surgery and Engineering University of Florida Medical College of Georgia University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Augusta, GA 30912 Gainesville, FL 32611 Amy.Stevens@ dlind@ {kjohnsen,raij,lok}@ ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Any new tool introduced for education needs to be Virtual human experiences may one day be ubiquitous in validated. We developed a virtual human experience education. When using real humans is difficult, called the Virtual Objective Structured Clinical impossible, or dangerous, virtual humans may serve as Examination (VOSCE). In the VOSCE, a medical student substitutes. Before this can happen, it must be validated examines a life-size virtual human who is presenting that when using virtual humans, the important educational symptoms of an illness. The student is then graded on objectives are met. An important objective in medical interview skills. As part of a medical school class education is evaluating clinical examination interview requirement, thirty three second year medical students skills. Experts evaluate medical students while the participated in a user study designed to