Everything you need to practice, take an assigned evaluation, and read your feedback. Written for everyone at Unika Health — no technical background needed.
The Skills Gym is where you practice the conversations you have every day. You talk out loud with a simulated patient who actually talks back, and when you finish you get coaching on how it went.
There are two sides to it:
You reach both from the sidebar on the left: Home, Practice, Evaluation.
2026-08-20 — You stay signed in for the workday. Opening the portal in a new tab or later the same day no longer asks you to sign in again — one Google sign-in now lasts about 8 hours.
2026-08-06 — In Model Understanding questions, **Re-record now restarts the answer timer** — every take gets the full time instead of whatever the previous take left.
2026-08-05 — The round ? help button is now blue so it's easier to spot, and practice scenarios you've finished are marked in blue instead of grey.
2026-08-04 — This guide now opens right inside the portal: click the round ? button, then "Open the guide."
2026-08-04 — If you ever saw duplicate evaluations in your portal, that's fixed. You'll only ever see one.
2026-08-04 — The welcome tour now shows once, on your first visit — not on every sign-in. You can always reopen it with the round ? button.
2026-08-04 — An evaluation you've already submitted no longer shows an "Overdue" label while it waits for review. Once your status says In review, you're done.
There are two ways in, and both land you in the same place.
The sign-in screen says "Skills Gym — Sign in with your work email to continue." Use your work email, not a personal one. A personal account will not find your assignments.
If the learning-portal launch doesn't work, you'll see a short message saying so. Just sign in with your work email instead — everything is still there.
First time in? A short welcome walkthrough opens on its own. The round ? button in the bottom-right corner brings it back any time — and the same menu opens this guide.
Practice is unlimited. Nothing here goes to your trainer as a score.
A few things worth knowing:
Assigned evaluations live under Evaluation in the sidebar. Anything due soon also appears on your Home screen so you don't have to go looking.
If nothing has been assigned yet, you'll see "No evaluation assigned at this time." That's normal — your trainer assigns them when they're ready for you.
Each assignment card shows its name, its due date, and its current status. The due date appears as a small chip: Due 15 Aug, Due in 2 days, Due today, or Overdue in red.
Click Start to begin, or Resume if you already opened it once.
You'll first see a What to expect screen with a permission check. The Start button stays greyed out until everything it needs is working — this is on purpose, so you never lose an answer to a microphone that wasn't on.
Depending on the evaluation, you may be asked for:
Click Allow at each prompt. If you accidentally click Block, use the Retry button on the permission row rather than starting over.
This type is a set of spoken questions, one at a time:
Plan for one sitting. The timers run per question and your answers submit as one set, so start when you have a quiet stretch and won't be interrupted. If you do get pulled away, your saved answers keep — the card shows Resume and you continue from where you were — but remember you cannot revisit questions you've already moved past, and nothing is submitted until you click Finish.
Your status changes, and that's your signal that you're done:
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Assigned | Sent to you, not opened yet. |
| In progress | You've started it but haven't submitted. |
| In review | Submitted. Your trainer is reviewing it. You're done — there is nothing else for you to do. |
| Result available | Your trainer has released your result. Click View result. |
| Overdue | The due date passed and you haven't submitted yet. |
Overdue only ever means "not yet submitted." Once your status reads In review, you are not overdue and you don't need to chase anyone.
If your trainer allows retakes, you'll see a Retake button showing how many you've used, for example "Retake (1 of 2 used)".
Practice results appear the moment you finish. Open them any time by clicking a completed scenario under Practice.
Evaluation results appear only after your trainer reviews and releases them. When the status reads Result available, click View result on the card — on the Evaluation page or on Home.
Evaluations also show your score, the points you were expected to hit, and your trainer's notes — once released.
Don't read a single satisfaction chip as a verdict. The coaching underneath is the part that helps you next time.
If you're on a clinic network and the call simply won't connect, try again from home or from your phone's hotspot. Some clinic networks block the kind of connection the voice conversation needs. This is not a problem with your computer.
Contact IT to get the camera fixed. The recording requirement is set for the evaluation type as a whole and cannot be switched off for one person, so a working camera is the only way through.
Do a hard refresh:
That clears the old version out and loads the current one.
You'll see "Your answer didn't save. Retry to continue." Click Retry saving — this re-sends the same recording and does not use up one of your takes. Only use Re-record if retrying keeps failing.
Post in the Unika Skills Gym Locker Room chat space. That's faster than sending a direct message, and everyone benefits from seeing the answer. You can also use the feedback button in the portal (below).
There's a Feedback button in the bottom-right corner of every page. Two ways to use it:
You can tag your note as Typo, Confusing, Bug, or Suggestion. Tagging is optional.
Click send and you'll get a short "Sent — thanks!" confirmation. Your feedback goes straight to the team and it is private — other trainees never see it.
The feedback button is hidden while you're mid-session so nothing distracts you during a conversation. If you spot something during a session, note it and send it afterwards.
The team reads every item. Small, specific reports are the most useful kind — a sentence that read wrong is worth sending.