On a desktop, Kamila at the OSCE voice station is no longer a silhouette

Since 7 November, on screens at least 1024 pixels wide, the voice station «History-taking, patient 1» splits into two equal halves: Kamila's three-dimensional head on the left and the dialogue on the right. Each of her 99 recorded answers now has its own lip-movement track, and her lips follow the recording as it plays. The station still opens without an account.

Her answers, endings and checklist are the ones you already know

Only the way the patient is shown has changed. What she says, when she holds back, the five endings, the checklist and the debrief work as described when the station first appeared.

Where a face helps in a seminar

• Put the station on the projector: one student talks to Kamila while the group watches the dialogue pane and notes the line after which she stopped talking. Afterwards, compare those notes with the transcript in the debrief.

• Before the first session with a standardised patient, ask students to rehearse on a desktop or laptop rather than a phone, so that they practise speaking to someone on screen and not to a blank pane.

• Run the station twice with different students and compare at which moment each of them got to the blood and to the fear of cancer.

Open it once on the classroom computer

The head is a large download: the character model alone is about 59 MB, on top of the player. The page starts fetching it while the student reads the introduction, unless the browser is set to save data. Until it is ready, and if it does not load at all, the silhouette stays in its place and the station goes on by voice and text as before.

Phones and narrow windows below 1024 pixels do not load the head and keep the silhouette. The case text and the patient's voice are in Russian only. The case is still a draft that has to be reviewed by a physician, and this note stays visible in the station.