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ReviewAMA journal of ethics2019

Emerging Roles of Virtual Patients in the Age of AI.

C Donald Combs, P Ford Combs

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Review in AMA journal of ethics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Applications and Challenges of Virtual Reality in Medical Sciences Education: A Systematic Review.Journal of advances in medical education & professionalism · 2026
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  7. Harnessing the potential of large language models in medical education: promise and pitfalls.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024
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  11. From Concept to Practice: Advancements in Standardized Patient Methodology.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine
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  12. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Ophthalmology.Asia-Pacific journal of ophthalmology (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

C Donald Combsthe vice president and founding dean of the School of Health Professions at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, Virginia; and a fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and holds senior faculty appointments in the EVMS School of Health Professions; the Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering at Old Dominion University; Paris Descartes University; and Taipei Medical University.
P Ford Combs

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Today's web-enabled and virtual approach to medical education is different from the 20th century's Flexner-dominated approach. Now, lectures get less emphasis and more emphasis is placed on learning via early clinical exposure, standardized patients, and other simulations. This article reviews literature on virtual patients (VPs) and their underlying virtual reality technology, examines VPs' potential through the example of psychiatric intake teaching, and identifies promises and perils posed by VP use in medical education.

Indexed as

Artificial IntelligenceCurriculumPatient SimulationVirtual RealityEducation, MedicalHealth PersonnelHumans

Identifiers

PMID30794125

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