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Four weekly individual modules on a secure web-based platform: a 20-minute orientation and three 15-20-minute cases (major depressive disorder, schizophrenia spectrum disorder, bipolar I disorder, manic episode). Students hold free-text conversations with an LLM-driven simulated patient and family member in culturally embedded scenarios (Egyptian colloquial Arabic, idioms of distress, religious explanatory models, family reputation and stigma, medication cost) with bracketed non-verbal cues. Platform features include a Perspective-Taking Drill ("If I were the patient right now, I would feel...") and automated feedback with separate communication and empathy scores. Students follow the Student Clinical Handout, which includes a safety and crisis escalation protocol. Modules are ungraded and an instructor is available in every session.

Instructor-facilitated role-play in pairs of the same orientation and three cases, matched to the intervention arm in number, order, and length of sessions, using the same Student Clinical Handout. Partners alternate nurse and patient roles using script cards with the same case, cultural content, and cue descriptions; an additional student plays the family member. No AI-embedded Perspective-Taking Drill or automated feedback is provided.