The hardest conversations in medicine, practiced before they happen.
Medical students, residents, nurses and allied health professionals practice with patients and families who react like real people, and you see who is ready.
What gets in your way
Breaking bad news, informed consent and shared decisions are rarely practiced before the real moment.
Standardized patients are expensive, hard to schedule and reach only a few learners.
Communication skills are hard to assess consistently across rotations and sites.
What you get
Patients and families who react
Characters with history, fears and resistance, in text, voice or with a live avatar.
Your protocol at the center
SPIKES, Calgary-Cambridge or your own: Cesura builds the conversation and the rubric around it.
Ready for OSCE-style assessment
The same case for every learner, scored on your criteria, with evidence from the conversation.
A view of every cohort
See who is ready and where the group needs more practice, rotation by rotation.
How it works for you
- 01
You define the case
The patient, the setting and the protocol.
- 02
Learners practice
As often as they need, before the ward.
- 03
You assess readiness
On one standard, across sites.
See it with your own scenario.
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