Dr Andrew O'Malley

Senior Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 2196
Email: aso2@st-andrews.ac.uk

Teaching

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine.

He is Head of Division (Education) and Deputy Programme Director of the Scottish Graduate Entry Medical Programme (ScotGEM).

Andrew is an anatomist and forensic anthropologist by training and teaches on a range of subjects in the School of Medicine, including ScotGEM Case Based Learning eLearning and plenaries, medical ethics and generative artificial intelligence.

Andrew is Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators.

Research areas

Andrew's research interests are related to the use of technology in health professions education, including Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), telehealth and generative artificial intelligence.

Andrew leads SimPatient: an AI-powered patient simulator that allows Medical Schools to scale their communcation skills teaching.

Andrew also provides advisory and consultancy services on AI to the EdTech industry, various publishers and eLearning providers, and higher eduaction, and writes a free newsletter about his research and AI in MedEd.

🔗 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7725-4082

🔗 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jffb5RUAAAAJ

PhD supervision

Hamidreza Sadeghsalehi

Selected publications

Open access
Evaluating an AI-powered patient simulator for communication skills training: a one year randomized controlled trial
Wang, X., Duggal, S., Hughes, A., Murad, S. & O’Malley, A., 24 Sept 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Medical Internet Research. Forthcoming/In Press
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Solving educational capacity challenges with an AI-powered patient simulator
O'Malley, A. S., Duggal, S., Gordon, I., Murad , S. & Wang, X., 25 Jun 2025.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract
Open access
Quality assurance and validity of AI-generated single best answer questions
Ahmed, A., Kerr, E. & O'Malley, A. S., 25 Feb 2025, In: BMC Medical Education. 25, 10 p., 300.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access
Ensuring appropriate representation in artificial intelligence – generated medical imagery: protocol for a methodological approach to address skin tone bias
O'Malley, A., Veenhuizen, M. & Ahmed, A., 27 Nov 2024, In: JMIR AI. 3, p. 1-8 8 p., e58275.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open access
Demographic biases in AI-generated simulated patient cohorts: a comparative analysis against census benchmarks
Veenhuizen, M. & O'Malley, A., 18 Nov 2025, In: Advances in Simulation. 10, 1, p. 1-8 8 p., 58.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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