Internet-based learning resources including social networking tools and Virtual Patients have great potential for enhancing medical education. Here we talk to Dr James Bateman from University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust about using Internet-based technology to enhance medical education.
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ICVP 2009: Using Aritifical Intelligence in VPs
Professor Sergei Nirenburg from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA describes his ‘knowledge-based, language-enabled simulation and training system’: a VP that incorporates artificial intelligence and language-recognition technology for a more ‘open’ model. This Virtual Patient player focuses on teaching the student how to diagnose and treat VPs. The VP ‘consciously’ experiences it’s disease state and […]
ICVP 2009: Variety and flexibility are key to effective VPs
Dr Rachel Ellaway from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine talks to eViP about the need for Virtual Patients when teaching Canadian students across different cultures, and even different time zones! Flexibility and variety are key for virtual patients, and they can even be taken out of the medical education context – are Virtual Patients […]
ICVP 2009: Terry Poulton talks to eViP about the evolution of Virtual Patients
On the first day of the International Conference for Virtual Patients, Dr Terry Poulton from St George’s University of London talks to eViP about the evolution of Virtual Patients, and how VPs will do for medicine what flight simulators do for aviation. Listen here What’s your opinion? Are VPs an essential educational tool for medical […]
