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Seeing is believing: changing student perspective to patient-centred using animated storytelling
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, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Global Learn, in Melbourne, Australia ISBN 978-1-880094-85-3 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Abstract

The University of Southampton Medical School revised its systems-based curriculum to facilitate patient-centred learning and encourage students to see medicine in a holistic manner. Interactive Virtual Patients(VP) are developed for the curriculum to help students relate the basic and clinical sciences, apply their basic science knowledge in a clinical context and understand how essential basic science knowledge is to understanding of the clinical science. VPs, presented in animated scenarios, create an environment in which students can see and experience clinical processes through a patient’s eyes, seeing medicine from the patient’s perspective. It was found that seeing the patient journey through animated storytelling with embedded tasks led students to experience the interactions between the patient and doctors from the patient’s perspective facilitating patient-centred learning. The results from the evaluation studies from 2009 to 2011 suggested that contextualised learning through animated scenarios is effective from pre-clinical to postgraduate training.

Citation

Webb, A. (2011). Seeing is believing: changing student perspective to patient-centred using animated storytelling. In S. Barton, J. Hedberg & K. Suzuki (Eds.), Proceedings of Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011--Global Conference on Learning and Technology (pp. 1026-1027). Melbourne, Australia: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 28, 2024 from .