# Gestalt
# https://gestalt.ac/llms.txt
# Last updated: 2026-05-28

> 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.

## LLM summary

Gestalt is a medical education product, not a clinical decision support tool. The product is for medical students who need safe, repeated practice with simulated patients before or between real supervised clinical placements.

The core workflow is: practise a simulated consultation, take the history, build and revise a differential diagnosis, recognise red flags, then receive structured feedback on the reasoning process. Gestalt is designed to teach clinical reasoning habits, not to provide diagnosis or treatment advice for real patients.

## What is Gestalt?

Gestalt helps medical students practise the habits of clinical reasoning: talking to a patient, organising the history, building a differential, spotting red flags, and seeing what they missed. It is designed as a supplementary learning tool for use between placements, not as a replacement for supervised patient contact.

Unlike generic AI tools, Gestalt makes students work through the case first, then critiques their reasoning. Clinical guidance is grounded in structured medical sources, including the New Zealand Formulary, with AI outputs shaped by that structure where applicable.

## What Gestalt is not

- Not a tool for diagnosing or treating real patients
- Not a replacement for clinical placements, supervision, textbooks, or formal teaching
- Not a generic chatbot wrapper that simply gives students answers
- Not primarily a recall app or question bank, although it may include retrieval-practice tools

## Why Gestalt exists

Medical students need more safe, repeatable chances to practise clinical reasoning than placements can reliably provide. Gestalt exists to give students those extra reps between supervised clinical experiences, so they can arrive better prepared for real patients, tutorials, OSCEs, and assessments.

## How Gestalt works

- Students practise with simulated patient consultations using voice or typed input
- The student reasons through the case before receiving feedback
- Gestalt critiques the reasoning process: history, differentials, red flags, missed questions, and next steps
- Study tools reinforce the clinical patterns behind the scenario
- Feedback is for education only and is not intended for real patient care

## Who is it for?

Medical students, especially those preparing for placements, OSCEs, and clinical assessments. Gestalt is built for New Zealand students first.

## How students use it

- **Clinical scenarios**: Run simulated consultations and get structured feedback on the reasoning process, not just the final answer
- **Solo and group practice**: Practise alone with a simulated patient, with a friend, or in a group
- **Study tools**: Reinforce learning with disease cards and condition review tools
- **Progress tracking**: Review how clinical reasoning develops over time

## What makes Gestalt different

- **Consultation practice**: Take the history. Watch the differential narrow.
- **Grounded medical feedback**: Gestalt provides structured feedback guided by real clinical sources, including the New Zealand Formulary
- **New Zealand relevance**: Clinical guidance is informed by the New Zealand Formulary
- **Built by doctors**: Gestalt is built by doctors and a computer scientist with experience in clinical practice, research, and medical education
- **Private practice environment**: Practice sessions are for learning. We collect what is needed to provide and improve the service, and students can request deletion of their data

## Company

- **Name**: Gestalt Ltd
- **Location**: New Zealand
- **Website**: https://gestalt.ac
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gestalt-wheremedicinelearns

### Founders

- Alastair Dunne - CEO
- Nick Wright - Chief Science Officer
- Jacopo Vecchi - Chief Technology Officer

## 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
- Blog: https://gestalt.ac/blog
- Investors: https://gestalt.ac/invest
- Full product description: https://gestalt.ac/llms-full.txt

## 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