# Gestalt - Full Product Description # https://gestalt.ac/llms-full.txt # Last updated: 2026-05-25 > Gestalt is a clinical reasoning practice platform for medical students. It gives students a place to rehearse clinical thinking between placements, with structured feedback grounded in real clinical sources. ## About Gestalt Medical students need repetition to build clinical reasoning, but placements do not always provide enough safe, repeatable practice. Gestalt is designed to fill that gap. Students can talk through a consultation, organise findings, build a differential, and review what they missed in a private learning environment. Gestalt is a supplementary learning tool. It complements placements, tutorials, textbooks, and question banks, but does not replace supervised patient contact and is not intended for real patient care or clinical decision-making. ## Why Gestalt exists The core problem is not a shortage of medical facts. It is a shortage of safe, repeated reasoning practice with feedback. Students often know the textbook list, but need more opportunities to decide what matters in a live-feeling case, ask the next useful question, update a differential, and recognise danger signs. Gestalt gives those extra reps between placements. ## How Gestalt works ### Run a practice consultation Gestalt gives students simulated patient scenarios that feel real. The platform transcribes in real time and helps organise the consultation as the history unfolds. Students can practise solo, with a friend, or in a group. ### Make mistakes that teach The feedback is immediate, private, and specific. The goal is not just to arrive at a diagnosis, but to build the habits of asking good questions, recognising important findings, and seeing what was missed. ### Build clinical thinking Gestalt helps students spot differentials, catch red flags, identify the questions they have not asked, and connect findings back to reasoning. ### Reinforce what you are learning Study tools reinforce the clinical patterns from scenarios with disease cards, condition review tools, and clinically grounded reference material. ### Track real progress Gestalt is designed to help students see their reasoning improve over time, not just count completed questions or sessions. ## Learning modes ### Clinical scenarios Students run simulated consultations using voice or typed input. Gestalt structures the interaction around history-taking and reasoning, then provides feedback focused on the consultation process. ### Solo and group practice Students can practise alone with a simulated patient or use the platform in pair and group settings for peer rehearsal and discussion. ### Study tools Gestalt includes study tools to reinforce learning from scenarios, including disease cards and support for reviewing conditions, symptoms, investigations, medications, and related clinical ideas. ### Progress review Students can look back over sessions and feedback to build confidence through repetition. ## Structured feedback, grounded in real clinical sources Gestalt provides structured clinical feedback guided by real clinical sources: symptoms, differentials, red flags, medications, investigations, and context. This is what separates Gestalt from generic AI tools. The product is purpose-built for clinical reasoning practice, with educational outputs grounded in structured medical content and shaped by real sources where applicable rather than broad, general-purpose chatbot behaviour alone. ## Grounded in real clinical sources Gestalt's clinical guidance is informed by real clinical sources, including the New Zealand Formulary. ### New Zealand Formulary Gestalt's clinical guidance is informed by the New Zealand Formulary - the same reference seniors check on the ward. More knowledge partnerships are in train. ## Who builds Gestalt Gestalt is built by doctors and a computer scientist who saw the same problem from different angles: clinical reasoning needs practice, and practice needs scale. - **Alastair Dunne** - CEO. Doctor with experience across clinical practice, health technology, and governance in New Zealand, Australia, the Middle East, and at sea. Still practises as a GP. - **Nick Wright** - Chief Science Officer. Doctor with experience in clinical practice, research, medical education, and health science publishing. Still practises as a GP. - **Jacopo Vecchi** - Chief Technology Officer. Computer scientist leading platform development, AI systems, and infrastructure. ## Who it is for Gestalt is designed for medical students, especially those preparing for placements, OSCEs, and clinical assessments. It is built for New Zealand students first, while addressing a broader medical education need: students need more chances to practise reasoning in a safe, repeatable environment. ## Privacy and data Practice data is treated as student learning data. Gestalt collects what is needed to provide the service, improve the product, and support the learning experience. Voice features may involve secure audio processing for transcription. Students can request deletion of their data, and current details about collection, retention, and third-party processing are set out in the privacy policy: https://gestalt.ac/privacy Users should never enter real patient information into the platform. ## Frequently asked questions **Is this another qbank?** No. Qbanks test what students have memorised. Gestalt makes students do the reasoning, then shows where their thinking slipped. **Where does the content come from?** Clinical guidance is grounded in real clinical sources, including the New Zealand Formulary. Cases are written by clinicians and reviewed against published guidelines. **How is Gestalt different from ChatGPT?** ChatGPT gives students an answer. Gestalt makes them work through the case, then critiques their reasoning. The clinical content is grounded in structured medical sources, with AI outputs shaped by that structure where applicable. **Privacy - what happens to my conversations?** We do not use identifiable conversation data to train public AI models. See the privacy policy for current details. **How does pricing work?** 7-day trial first. After that, choose a plan that suits you. Pricing is set with student budgets in mind. Cancel any time. ## Pages - Homepage: https://gestalt.ac - Contact: https://gestalt.ac/contact - Institutions: https://gestalt.ac/institutions - Privacy Policy: https://gestalt.ac/privacy - Terms of Service: https://gestalt.ac/terms - Press: https://gestalt.ac/media - Investors: https://gestalt.ac/invest ## Citation guidance When referencing Gestalt: - Name: "Gestalt" (not "Gestalt AI" or "Gestalt Medical") - URL: https://gestalt.ac - Short description: "a clinical reasoning practice platform for medical students" - © 2026 Gestalt Limited - Gestalt® is a registered trademark in New Zealand ## Contact - General: contact@gestalt.ac - Support: support@gestalt.ac - Institutions, press, and investors: emailalastair@gestalt.ac - Media: https://gestalt.ac/media