14 April 2026
A patient in front of you, a vague complaint, limited time. What do you do? For many students, that’s where the challenge lies: moving from theory to action.
“Students often have the knowledge, but applying it takes practice,” says General Practitioner and lecturer Paul Houben. With an AI tutor, he and educational developer Franciska Koens make that practice more accessible, and more realistic.
With support from a Senior Fellow Comenius grant and the Amsterdam UMC Innovation Award, Houben and Koens, both affiliated with Amsterdam UMC, are developing KARLA: an AI-driven tutor that allows students to practise with realistic cases and gradually sharpen their clinical reasoning.