Somewhere for your candidates to practise between your sessions
ZWIP gives PLAB 2 tutors, GP training programmes, course providers and medical schools a way to hand a whole cohort realistic practice on demand — AI simulated patients, exam-style timing and structured feedback after every station or case — with your own admin area to see how they are getting on.
Your own organisation, your own cohort admin area, and a cost per candidate that falls as the cohort grows.
Why this is cheaper to share than to build
Every partnership needs a reason beyond goodwill. Ours is a cost structure that only works at scale — and that is exactly why it is worth handing to you rather than rebuilding.
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Repetition is the one thing teaching cannot cheaply scale
Fluency in a station or case comes from doing it many times over, not from being told how. But every consultation delivered by a person costs a role-player, a room and somebody’s evening — so a candidate gets a handful of rehearsals and then goes quiet until the next session. That is not a failure of teaching. It is arithmetic.
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Our costs sit almost entirely at the front
Building a simulated patient that holds a consultation, runs to exam-style timing and scores against an exam’s own marking domains is a large fixed cost and a very small marginal one. The four-hundredth consultation costs us close to what the fourth did. There is no role-player to book and no room to find.
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Which is why sharing it beats building it
A fixed cost that size only makes sense spread across everyone preparing for a spoken clinical exam — no single academy, training scheme or year group could justify building it for themselves, and none should have to. Spread wide enough, unlimited practice stops being a budget line and becomes something you can simply include.
Sharing infrastructure across organisations only works if the separation between them is real. Your cohort sits in its own organisation, and that boundary is enforced in the application’s access-control layer rather than by filtering in the interface — an admin from another organisation cannot query your candidates at all, and your own admin login cannot reach beyond your organisation or raise its own seat limit.
Who we are looking to work with
Independent tutors
You run mock circuits, one-to-ones or small groups, and your candidates go quiet between sessions. ZWIP gives them somewhere to keep practising — and gives you something to point at when they ask what to do in the gaps.
Training academies and course providers
You already sell a structured PLAB 2 course. A cohort licence lets you include on-demand practice in what you sell, under your own admin area, without building simulation software yourself.
Universities and medical schools
Your students need OSCE rehearsal that does not depend on staff availability or a simulated-patient budget. We can set up a cohort, keep its data separated from every other organisation, and report usage back to you.
GP training programmes
You run a training scheme with a cohort of registrars preparing for the RCGP SCA, and want them consulting between teaching days rather than waiting for the next one. A cohort licence gives your whole scheme somewhere to practise on their own time.
SCA course providers and GP tutors
You already run SCA courses or one-to-one coaching. A cohort licence lets you include on-demand case practice in what you already offer, under your own admin area, without building simulation software yourself.
NHS trusts supporting GP trainees
Your trust supports registrars through training and the SCA. We can set up a cohort, keep its data separated from every other organisation, and report usage back to you — the same arrangement a university gets for its students.
This is not a replacement for you
We publish comparison pages arguing that spaced daily practice beats squeezing preparation into one intensive block, and that AI patients fill the gaps a study partner leaves. We stand by both. Neither says a good tutor is replaceable — read them and you will find we say the opposite.
What software does well is volume and consistency. It will run the same station forty times at two in the morning and hold it to the same standard every time. What it cannot do is watch a candidate’s hands shake, hear the thing they are not saying, or tell them the truth about their manner. That is your work, and there is no version of this where it is not.
So the split we are proposing is simple. You do the teaching, the judgement and the part that needs a person. ZWIP does the reps.
What a partner gets
Everything below is built and running. We set your cohort up with you rather than leaving you to work out a dashboard — for a first intake that is faster, and it means the accounts are right before your candidates ever see them.
Your own organisation on ZWIP
Your cohort sits in its own organisation. Their accounts, courses, feedback and results are separated from every other organisation in the application’s access layer — not by a filter someone has to remember to apply.
A cohort you control
We set your candidates’ accounts up with you, and every account is bound to your organisation automatically. You can see who is in your cohort, when they joined and what plan they are on.
Usage reporting for the last 30 days
Practice sessions started, total practice time logged, how many of your cohort were actually active rather than merely enrolled, and the average pass rate across every consultation we have scored for them.
What your cohort is telling us
The feedback your candidates leave, including their responses to the survey we send after their real PLAB 2 — filtered to your organisation and nobody else’s.
Your own material alongside ours
You can add courses, modules and lessons for your cohort. Your candidates see your material and ZWIP’s shared station library together, and no other organisation sees yours.
An admin account that cannot overreach
Your admin login reaches your organisation and nothing else. Seat limits, billing status and user roles are locked at our end, so a partner admin cannot quietly raise its own cap or promote an account.
Tell us what your cohort needs
Cohorts differ, and the admin side is where they differ most — what you need to report on, how you want candidates enrolled, what your procurement team will ask for. Put it in the form and we will tell you plainly what we can do now and what would need building.
What your candidates get
9 PLAB 2 stations, plus full RCGP SCA circuits
History taking, clinical explanation, relatives, colleagues, teaching, breaking bad news, consent, complaints and ethical dilemmas for PLAB 2 — practised out loud with an AI simulated patient, at any hour, in any time zone. GP registrars preparing for the SCA get full 12-case circuits under the exam’s own timing, video and telephone cases included.
Exam-style pressure
Stations and cases run to each exam’s own timing, and the patient can be made anxious, angry or evasive so candidates rehearse what unsettles them. Mock exam mode and full SCA circuits run multiple consultations back to back.
Feedback scored the way the exam is
Every consultation is scored against that exam’s own marking domains — PLAB 2’s Data Gathering, Clinical Management and Interpersonal Skills, or the RCGP’s Data Gathering and Diagnosis, Clinical Management and Medical Complexity, Relating to Others for the SCA — with specific points to work on rather than a verdict.
Three ways this usually works
Terms are scoped to the size and length of your cohort, because that is what actually moves the cost per candidate. Here is the shape of each arrangement.
Cohort licences
Seats for a group, held in your own organisation on ZWIP. Because our cost per additional consultation is so small, the cost per candidate falls as the cohort grows — which is something per-hour human provision can never do. It suits academies running defined intakes and universities running a year group.
Tutor referral
You send your candidates to ZWIP with your own link and we share what it earns. The attribution and reward tracking already runs in the product, so the plumbing exists. What we would agree with you is the split.
Something else entirely
Co-run a mock circuit. Write stations together. Bundle ZWIP into a course you already sell. The arrangements worth having are usually the ones nobody had a template for, so if you can see one we have not listed, propose it.
Not sure which fits? Say so. “Not sure yet” is a legitimate answer on the form below.
What happens when you get in touch
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A reply from a person, within two working days
Not a sequence. If we are not the right fit, we will say so and, where we can, suggest what is.
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A short call, if you want one
Half an hour to understand what you teach, who you teach, and what is not working in the gaps between your sessions.
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A pilot cohort, not a deck
We would rather set up a small real group and show you the admin area with your own candidates in it.
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Terms, once we both know what we are agreeing to
Written in plain English, priced against the size and length of your cohort, and short enough to read in one sitting.
Questions partners ask
Tell us what you are working with
A person reads every one of these — there is no sequence at the other end. We reply within two working days, even if the answer is that we are not the right fit.
Related reading
- Browse PLAB 2 stationsEvery station type your candidates would practise.
- RCGP SCA practiceFull case circuits, marked in the three SCA domains.
- AI patient simulatorHow the simulated consultations actually work.
- Individual membership pricingThe public price your candidates pay today.
- Editorial policyHow our clinical content is written and reviewed.