ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
The Utility of Virtual Patient Simulations for Clinical Reasoning Education.
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- Virtual Reality Simulation: Evaluating an Experiential Tool for the Clinical Application of Pathophysiology.Medical science educator · 2022Article
- Planning a Collection of Virtual Patients to Train Clinical Reasoning: A Blueprint Representative of the European Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The impact of small-group virtual patient simulator training on perceptions of individual learning process and curricular integration: a multicentre cohort study of nursing and medical students.BMC medical education · 2022Article
- Virtual Simulation in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review of Recent Practice.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Virtual Patient Simulations (VPSs) have been cited as a novel learning strategy, but there is little evidence that VPSs yield improvements in clinical reasoning skills and medical knowledge. This study aimed to clarify the effectiveness of VPSs for improving clinical reasoning skills among medical students, and to compare improvements in knowledge or clinical reasoning skills relevant to specific clinical scenarios. We enrolled 210 fourth-year medical students in March 2017 and March 2018 to participate in a real-time pre-post experimental design conducted in a large lecture hall by using a clicker. A VPS program (
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