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Published on in Vol 12 (2026)

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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/88580, first published .
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Enhancing Psychiatry Training Using an Agentic AI Simulated Consultation Tool: Prospective Cohort Study

Enhancing Psychiatry Training Using an Agentic AI Simulated Consultation Tool: Prospective Cohort Study

Alice Rueda   1 * , PhD ;   Huda F Al-Shamali   1 * , PhD ;   Zack Cote   1 , BSc ;   Niloy Roy   1 , BSc ;   Reinhard Janssen-Aguilar   1 , MD ;   Jithin Joseph   1 , MD ;   Bazen Gashaw Teferra   1 , PhD ;   Mohammad Amin Kamaleddin   1 , PhD ;   Lisa Burback   2 , MD ;   Olga Winkler   2 , MD ;   Bill Kapralos   3 , PhD ;   Andrei Torres   3 , PhD ;   Divya Sharma   4 , PhD ;   Sridhar Krishnan   5 , PhD ;   Guillaume Dumas   6, 7 , PhD ;   Andrew Greenshaw   2 , PhD ;   Alexandre Hudon   8, 9, 10, 11, 12 , MD, PhD ;   Sanjeev Sockalingam   13, 14 , MD ;   Yanbo Zhang   2 , MD, PhD ;   Adam Dubrowski   15 , PhD ;   Venkat Bhat   1, 14 , MSc, MD

1 Department of Psychiatry, AI for Mental Health, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

3 maxSIMhealth Group, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada

4 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

5 Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

6 CHU Sainte-Justine Azrieli Research Center, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

7 Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montréal, QC, Canada

8 Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

9 Department of Psychiatry, Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada

10 Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada

11 Department of Psychiatry, Institut National de Psychiatrie Légale Philippe-Pinel, Montréal, QC, Canada

12 Groupe Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur la Cognition et le Raisonnement Professionnel (GIRCoPRo), Department of Psychiatry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

13 Complex Care and Recovery, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

14 Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

15 Faculty of Health Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally

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