How can virtual patients help medical students and health care professionals deal with a pandemic? The WHO has formerly declared the world to be in the grip of a global swine flu pandemic. The British Medical Assocaition has published it’s guidelines for GPs and healthcare professionals. Needless to say, each country will have its own […]
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Using Web 2.0 in medical education
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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Andrzej Kononowicz talks about organising the ICVP 2009
It may sound surprising but the idea of virtual patients is nothing new. Almost 40 years ago, at the beginning of the personal computer era, there were already attempts of constructing case-based computer learning programs that would support medical students. So why was the first conference on virtual patients not organised until 2009? Why did […]
Just how useful is Virtual Reality?
This interesting blog entitled “7 virtual reality technologies that actually work” from the io9.com technology website gave an overview of successful virtual technologies. But where are the virtual patients?
eViP Explained!
eViP explained! Terry Poulton and Chara Balsubramanium talk about the eViP project.
Technical Talk with Luke Woodham
Luke Woodham from St George’s University in London writes about the eViP Technical Reference Group. Here he explains the goals and achievements of eViP TRG.
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 […]
