“VPs will not replace real patient encounters”: Dr Bas de Leng talks about the mini-symposium on virtual patients
The importance of collaboration in VP research and development
Samuel Edelbring from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm talks about the importance of collaboration and exchanging ideas in research into VPs.
Dr Sören Huwndiek scoops the Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator Award
We are very pleased to announce that eViP member Dr Sören Huwendiek from Heidelberg University, Germany, was awarded the prestigious Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator Award at the AMEE 2009 conference in Malaga, Spain.
Valerie Smothers from MedBiquitous talks to eViP
eViP talks with Valerie Smothers, the Deputy Director of MedBiquitous about virtual patients and the value of technical standards.
A brief history of the ICVP’09
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 […]