Medical Educator on Virtual Patients
July 17th, 2009
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.
Virtual patients are virtually non existent in our curriculum. If only 10% of universities in the US are using them, and people in the UK seem to be more concerned with simulators than using e-learning properly.
From experience of my own uni, I think people have mastered putting power point lectures on the web though
“Virtual patients and virtually non-existent in our curriculum” is an interesting comment! It would be interesting to see whether students would welcome VPs into their curriculum to help develop their clinical reasoning skills?
eViP conducted a survey on the use of VPs, you can read about it here: http://www.virtualpatients.eu/virtual-patients/about-virtual-patients/who-uses-virtual-patients/
I hope this is useful and of interest!
Sian