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The importance of integrated learning of the clinical and basic sciences in the undergraduate medical curriculum led the University of Southampton Medical School to develop Virtual Patients. They are the key to delivering the patient-centred...

In U.K. nutrition is now recognised as being central to health promotion, disease prevention and effective care and is a key element of government policy. Currently, health care professionals are poorly trained in the underlying principles of...

The University of Southampton Medical School’s move toward patient-centred and technology-enhanced learning has led the School to the development of different types of virtual patients, two of which are aimed for pre-clinical year students...

Although digital drop boxes for student submissions exist in VLEs they are often incomplete solutions. We have developed a demonstrator system to provide an on-line environment for administration, marking and feedback of electronically submitted...

Poor quality feedback is a frequent complaint from students. A common theme is that they receive insufficient and poor quality feedback on their work. Feedback can be provided in many ways, for written assignments online submission and marking...