Publications
94
Citations
3,392
Est. group size
~6
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
42
Publishing since 1984
Douglas R. Danforth's work focuses on developing virtual and simulation-based tools for medical education, particularly virtual standardized patients that use natural language processing and dialogue systems to let students practice clinical history-taking and decision-making skills. His research also extends to reproductive biology topics, though recent publications concentrate heavily on simulation technology and its evaluation in training contexts such as emergency care, triage, and obstetrics. This work sits at the intersection of medical education, computer science (dialogue systems and AI), and clinical training assessment.
Publication output has been variable but shows a recent increase, with a peak of six publications in 2024 following a slower period around 2020-2021.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Evaluation of high-fidelity and virtual reality simulation platforms for assessing fourth-year medical students’ encounters with patients in need of urgent or emergent care
Annals of Medicine · 2024
- Virtual Reality Simulation for Assessment of Hemorrhage Control and SALT Triage Accuracy in First Responders
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness · 2024
- Artificial intelligence in virtual standardized patients: Combining natural language understanding and rule based dialogue management to improve conversational fidelity
Medical Teacher · 2022
- A randomized prospective study of a hybrid rule- and data-driven virtual patient
Natural Language Engineering · 2022
- ENT Mentorship Program for Preclinical Medical Students
Otolaryngology · 2020
- Using virtual standardized patients to accurately assess information gathering skills in medical students
Medical Teacher · 2019
- Virtual Antenatal Encounter and Standardized Simulation Assessment (VANESSA): Pilot Study
JMIR Serious Games · 2018
- Using Paraphrasing and Memory-Augmented Models to Combat Data Sparsity in Question Interpretation with a Virtual Patient Dialogue System
2018
- Combining CNNs and Pattern Matching for Question Interpretation in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System
2017
- Virtual Antenatal Encounter and Standardized Simulation Assessment (VANESSA): Pilot Study (Preprint)
2017
- Developing a Conversational Virtual Standardized Patient to Enable Students to Practice History-Taking Skills
Simulation in Healthcare The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare · 2016
- A Corpus of Word-Aligned Asked and Anticipated Questions in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System
2016
- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness×3
- Medical Teacher×2
- Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open×2
- Academic Emergency Medicine×1
- Simulation in Healthcare The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare×1
- M Lain
Medicine · Indiana University
- Han Yan
Medicine · Indiana University
- Li Chen
Medicine · The Ohio State University
- Kapil Dev Nayar
Medicine · Indiana University
- Yifan Sun
Medicine · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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