Automated Evaluation of Standardized Patients with LLMs
Andrew Emerson, Le An Ha, Keelan Evanini, Su Somay, Kevin Frome, Polina Harik, Victoria Yaneva
Abstract
Standardized patients (SPs) are essential for clinical reasoning assessments in medical education. This paper introduces evaluation metrics that apply to both human and simulated SP systems. The metrics are computed using two LLM-as-a-judge approaches that align with human evaluators on SP performance, enabling scalable formative clinical reasoning assessments.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.aimecon-main.25
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers
- Month:
- October
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh, Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Editors:
- Joshua Wilson, Christopher Ormerod, Magdalen Beiting Parrish
- Venue:
- AIME-Con
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 231–238
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.aimecon-main.25/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Andrew Emerson, Le An Ha, Keelan Evanini, Su Somay, Kevin Frome, Polina Harik, and Victoria Yaneva. 2025. Automated Evaluation of Standardized Patients with LLMs. In Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education Conference (AIME-Con): Full Papers, pages 231–238, Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh, Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
- Cite (Informal):
- Automated Evaluation of Standardized Patients with LLMs (Emerson et al., AIME-Con 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.aimecon-main.25.pdf