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Virtual patients have been used widely in the US but few medical schools in the UK are using them to their full potential.
The organisatoin EVIP has been created to bring together a bank of virtual patients for medical students. This will hopefully be open access for all to learn from. An exciting proposition!
In this interview, Dr David Davies from the University of Warwick, UK, talks to Dr James Bateman about the role of virtual patients, and the challenges of incorporating them into the medical curriculum.
You can learn more about EVIP at www.virtualpatients.eu, at Twitter (Virtualpatients) and Facebook.
We’re really excited about our new slide technology and the potential it has for creating dynamic, interactive slides with audio and video.
The technology is from the kind folks at iSpring who have collaborated with us to enable us to start producing some great interactive slides for student medical education.
Take a look at our first foray below – it’s a guide to assessing and evaluating back pain.
We have big plans for the future for this – OSCE stations anyone? We feel its an excellent string to our already strong bow of MCQs, video, podcasts and guides. And of course all new content we produce will be available, at no extra cost, to our members.
We would love to hear what you think of it and are open to all of your ideas for developing educational content for medical students. Let us know what you want to see!
Medical Schools are increasingly relying on simulator based training. Several univerities across the UK and several of the training Colleges for postgraduate education are becoming involved in the field.
But what do you think of it as students? These models are often costly, locked away and the actual face to face training you get with them is minimal. Is may be a good use of time and resources to train you, but do you feel it is effective in the institution you work in.
Also from an exam perspective:
Do any medical students have any simulator topics they would like to be covered specifically in an exam situation (e.g. approach to pulmonary embolism)
Have any students faced these simulators in an exam (excluding ALS stations)? As far as I’m aware although they’re used in an interview setting its not clear that they are ready yet to be rolled out across the whole curriculum
We’d be interested to hear comments and tips from students from the UK and also abroad