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The aim of this study was to evaluate a web‐based simulation of patients (Web‐SP) program on learning skills in clinical reasoning and patient evaluation in the oral surgery education of third‐year dental students. A secondary aim was to investigate the program's effect on students’ learning, knowledge, and attitudes towards virtual patient simulations. Authentic virtual oral surgery patient cases were created at a dental school in Sweden using the Web‐SP platform. The Web‐SP program was introduced in a two‐hour seminar. A 20‐minute pre‐seminar test (test A) was administered to assess the students’ knowledge of oral surgery prior to experiencing the Web‐SP program. Ten days after the seminar, another test (test B) was administered to evaluate the increase in oral surgery knowledge as a result of using the program, and an emailed survey of the students was conducted. Of 70 students in the course, 67 (95.7 …