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Virtual Patients Facilitating Pre-clinical Year Students’ Contextualised Learning of Basic and Clinical Sciences
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E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Vancouver, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-76-1 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

Abstract

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 facilitating contextualised learning of basic and clinical sciences. Each virtual patient case illustrates a clinical scenario with a patient story and has basic science-related quizzes, interactive tasks and learning materials embedded in the scenario. In the 2008/09 academic year eight VPs were implemented and integrated into Years 1 and 2 curricula as a pilot study. The study results suggested that a clinical scenario presented with a patient story made students perceive a virtual patient almost as a real patient and having basic sciences embedded in a clinical context enhanced their understanding of them. The importance of the integration of virtual patients into the curriculum was highlighted by their usages recorded in a database.

Citation

Choi, S., Hammerton, M., Ault, E., Lee, M., Duboc, J.R. & Bryant, T. (2009). Virtual Patients Facilitating Pre-clinical Year Students’ Contextualised Learning of Basic and Clinical Sciences. In T. Bastiaens, J. Dron & C. Xin (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2009--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1561-1562). Vancouver, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 19, 2024 from .