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Advisory services · 2026

Artificial intelligence in health professions education

One-to-one advisory and personalised professional development for senior leaders in health professions education.

Dr Andrew O'Malley Head of the Division of Education and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, University of St Andrews School of Medicine. Founder of SimPatient.

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The offer

A monthly retainer for senior leaders.

Generative AI is changing how students learn, how faculty assess and what graduates must be able to do. This one-to-one retainer gives you a senior, independent adviser who keeps you ahead of it, one theme at a time.

Each month you receive

01

A briefing note

Four to six pages on one theme, sent the week before the session.

02

A one-to-one session

Sixty minutes together: the theme, what it means for your role and institution, and your questions.

03

Follow-up and access

Notes with agreed actions and a record of learning for your CPD portfolio, plus email access between sessions.

How a month runs

Week 1

Theme and questions confirmed

Week 2

Briefing note sent

Week 3

One-to-one session

Week 4

Follow-up notes and actions

One-to-one retainer

Fees on request

Fees are set out in the brochure, sent on request.

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Terms at a glance

  • Six-month minimum term
  • Then renews quarterly; one month's notice before any renewal
  • Fees in GBP, invoiced quarterly in advance
  • Your discussions remain confidential
  • Briefing notes licensed for your internal use

“Faculty development is urgently needed; many still don’t know how to prompt properly.”

Medical school faculty member, interviewed in Rahma AT, Hafeez U, Farooq M. AI integration in undergraduate medical education: qualitative study of faculty perspectives in the United Arab Emirates. JMIR Medical Education, 2026. doi:10.2196/90192

Briefing themes for year one

Twelve indicative themes, one each month.

The themes below are indicative and are tailored to your requirements and your institution. You may also reorder themes, or substitute an urgent topic, with two weeks' notice.

  1. Month 1
    AI strategy: where to start
  2. Month 2
    Assessment integrity and generative AI
  3. Month 3
    AI use policy for students and staff
  4. Month 4
    Faculty development and AI literacy
  5. Month 5
    Simulated patients and communication skills
  6. Month 6
    Bias and equity in health AI
  7. Month 7
    Data protection, procurement and vendors
  8. Month 8
    Clinical reasoning and decision support
  9. Month 9
    What regulators and accreditors expect
  10. Month 10
    AI in curriculum design and mapping
  11. Month 11
    Research and scholarship with AI
  12. Month 12
    Year in review and horizon scan

Add-ons

Work for your institution.

Example activities that can be added at a fixed price at any point during the retainer. Other work can be undertaken at your request and is quoted separately.

Example activityDuration
AI readiness diagnosticSurvey, up to 10 interviews, curriculum and assessment review, 12-month action plan 4 weeks
On-site visitLeadership seminar and faculty workshop, with content tailored to your institution 2 days on site, plus tailored preparation
Institutional AI policyAI use, assessment integrity, data protection and procurement; one revision round 4 to 6 weeks

Fixed prices on request. Travel, accommodation and visa costs for on-site work are charged at cost.

Your adviser

Dr Andrew O'Malley

Andrew leads medical education at a Scottish medical school and builds AI tools for clinical training. He advises publishers, technology companies and institutions on how generative AI should, and should not, be used in health professions education.

Roles

  • Head of the Division of Education and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, University of St Andrews School of Medicine
  • Deputy Programme Director of ScotGEM, Scotland's graduate-entry medical programme for rural and remote practice
  • Founder of SimPatient, an AI simulated patient platform for clinical communication training, used by UK universities
  • Member of Elsevier's AI advisory board; adviser to ADInstruments; OpenAI Community Leader
  • Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland

Publications

Recent research.

Peer-reviewed work on AI in medical and health professions education.

  • Demographic biases in AI-generated simulated patient cohortsVeenhuizen M, O'Malley A. Advances in Simulation, 2025
  • Quality assurance and validity of AI-generated single best answer questionsAhmed A, Kerr E, O'Malley A. BMC Medical Education, 2025
  • Ensuring appropriate representation in AI-generated medical imageryO'Malley A, Veenhuizen M, Ahmed A. JMIR AI, 2024

All publications

Newsletter

AI × MedEd

A weekly synthesis of the research and practice on generative AI in medical education, written for educators and leaders.

Recent issues

  • Can AI play the patient?Nearly half of all implemented AI in clinical skills teaching is now a virtual patient, but the evidence for what it does to learning is still thin.
  • What AI does to the doctor’s mindFour 2026 papers argue the danger is not that the model gets it wrong, but that it sounds right, and our assessments cannot tell the difference.
  • The AI gap isn’t about enthusiasmOutside the US and Europe there is near-universal appetite for AI combined with very limited access.

All issues

Next step

A 30-minute introductory call.

Accepting one new client for January 2027

We agree your first themes and a start date. The retainer is offered to a small number of clients at a time.

andrew@omalley.net