Virtual patients
Do virtual patients prepare medical students for the real world? Development and application of a framework to compare a virtual patient collection with population data
... VP systems have lowered the technical burden for health- care educators to create virtual patients by providing so- phisticated user interfaces and guidance. However, there is a need for raising awareness ...
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On the usage of health records for the design of virtual patients: a systematic review
... of Virtual Patients for assessment ...where Virtual Patients were used for the assessment of students who completed a case-based learning ...their Virtual Patients ...single ...
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Curricular integration of virtual patients: a unifying perspective of medical teachers and students
... perspective, Virtual Patients (VPs), often defined as “ specific types of computer-based programs that simulates real-life clinical scenarios where learners emulate the roles of health care providers to ...
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Development and initial validation of an online engagement metric using virtual patients
... Virtual patients (VP), one form of online learning, are used increasingly in medical education [7]. Using a framework described by Kononowicz et al. [8], VPs can be defined rather simply as multimedia ...
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Dynamic feedback generation in virtual patients using semantic web technologies
... of virtual patients as an self-assessment process, were students perform an activity (attempting to determine the patient’s diagnosis and man- agement) which is ”observed” using the virtual patient ...
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Game-Based Virtual Patients Educational Opportunities and Design Challenges
... Virtual patients are computer-simulated patients used in clinical ...game-based virtual patients to mean synthetic patients in the context of a computer ...standardized ...
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Virtual patients: Development in cancer nursing education
... learning from making mistakes. Developing on from this, VPs are increasingly being used in nurse education. Fosberg et al. (2011) investigated students’ opinions about VP use for the assessment of clinical reasoning in ...
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Virtual Patients in Clinician’s Education: Theory, Knowledge and Self-efficacy in Anxiety Diagnosis
... another. Virtual patient systems offer clinical skills training, clinical reasoning and decision-making experiences that are difficult to gain else- where, according to ...of virtual patients in the ...
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Language, culture and international exchange of virtual patients
... a virtual patient (VPs) program at a single institution, to comprehensively cover a curriculum, is vir- tually ...of virtual patients in medical education through a collabora- tive ...
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Virtual patients: the influence of case design and teamwork on students’ perception and knowledge – a pilot study
... Five patient cases were created using the e-learning authoring system CASUS [17], which offers a flashcard- style interface. Each card supports a text body, a media element (e.g. for radiographs, lab results or short ...
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Introduction of virtual patients onto a final year anesthesia course: Hong Kong experience
... We first became involved with using FACS in early 2006. At the time, FACS and the TLRC had been up and running for nearly 2 years. For many years, we had struggled with how to most effectively teach our final year ...
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What are effects of a spaced activation of virtual patients in a pediatric course?
... The usage pattern for the spaced activation turned out to be more balanced, however we did not find any significant differences in the results of the intermediate exam, the score on ques[r] ...
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Educational potential of a virtual patient system for caring for traumatized patients in primary care
... Virtual Patients (VPs) are interactive computer simula- tions of patient encounters used in health care ...a virtual representation of a patient encounter for learning and assessment, typically ...
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Comparison of virtual endoscopy and transabdominal ultrasound with conventional endoscopy in patients with hematuria
... So it appears that virtual cystoscopy is not sensitive enough to replace conventional cystoscopy. So we need other modalities for screening for urothelial tumors. Lots of work is currently focused on molecular ...
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Brain metabolism and related connectivity in patients with acrophobia treated by virtual reality therapy: an 18F-FDG PET pilot study sensitized by virtual exposure
... 18 patients (46 ± 11 years old, five women) diagnosed with acrophobia were enrolled in the prospective CTRLSTRESS study (NCT02020824) approved by the Institutional Review Board CPP-Sud Méditerranée ...right-handed ...
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Virtual Experiments: Reflections on the Museum in the Virtual Realm
... multi- virtual approach to exhibiting ...3-D virtual reproduction of a section of the MIDAC in the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE), the virtual reality studio in the Duderstadt ...
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A virtual museum installation for virtual time travel
... An interview was also conducted with Dr Jo Clemens, Timespan’s Archive Development Manager and the project lead. When asked about how the in- stallation will add value to visitors, she stated that the system offers a ...
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The Future of Virtual Environments: The Development of Virtual Technology
... of virtual technology development is to embody the experience of telepresence [13-18], which brings the experience of “being there” [12] to the user in the computer-mediated ...immersive virtual experience ...
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Psychological and physiological effects of virtual nature environments on well being of bronchoscopy patients
... rate began to decline. Around this time, the video glasses were activated, and nature exposure started. However, the participant was not exposed to the video at all due to closed eyes during the complete bronchoscopy. ...
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Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Therapy upon Symptomatic Distress among Cancer Patients
... Weisman et al. in their landmark study on preventing psychological intervention with newly diagnosed cancer patients (1984) have described the “existential plight” of individual during the first 100 days after ...
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