Dr Peter Bloemendaal from Leiden University Medical School talks about Medicaleducation.nl, an online e-learning resources for medical students in The Netherlands. This websites facilitates the distribution and sharing of medical resources. As Peter explains: “We started the project about five years ago, and now we have more than 1200 e-learning modules in our database.” These […]
ICVP 2010 & MedBiquitous Annual Meeting Conference Update
Organisers of the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients 2010 & MedBiquitous Annual Meeting have issued a statement regarding the Icelandic volcanic eruption and how this may affect attendee’s travel plans. They write: “Due to the recent volcano eruptions in Iceland we are aware that some of you may soon start experiencing traveling difficulties with […]
VPs: Putting theory into practice for clinical reasoning
Virtual Patients help students put theory into practice without harming the patient. Dr Benjamin Hanebeck from the Centre for Virtual Patients at the University of Heidelberg in Germany talks about his experiences with eViP VPs.
Families of Virtual Patients for students at Heidelberg University
Dr Anke Simon from the Centre for Virtual Patients at Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany talks to eViP about the CAMPUS Family project.
Repurposing Virtual Patients with CASUS
Claudia Frey from the LMU Medical School in Munich, Germany talks about repurposing Virtual Patients.
Student feedback directs e-learning resource development at LMU
Communication and feedback are crucial for developing effective e-learning resources for medical students.
The power of podcasting in medical education!
Dr Thomas Brendel from the Working Group for e-Learning at LMU Medical School in Munich, Germany, talks to eViP about the advantages of introducing podcasts into the medical curriculum. In 2009, Thomas and colleagues published the results of a study on the effectiveness of podcasting in the medical curriculum. This study involved 240 third year […]
Dr. Stephan Oberle outlines the Longitudinal Interdisciplinary VP Project
The Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Virtual Patients Project, is run by Dr Stephan Oberle and colleagues at the Centre for Virtual Patients at Heidelberg University in Germany. This project focuses on integrating virtual patients across the medical curriculum, from clinical to pre-clinical phases. At the University of Heidelberg, VPs were generally used in the clinical phase of […]
The new eViP CAMPUS VP Player
Jorn Heid, Frank Hess and Simone Huber from Heilbronn Informatics and Heidelberg University, at The Center for Virtual Patients in Heidelberg, Germany, talk about developing the CAMPUS VP players. Jorn Heid was instrumental in helping develop the CAMPUS VP player and has since helped create the CAMPUS Card player. The team also recently developed the […]
Using CAMPUS VPs in medical education
Medical students play a crucial role in the eViP programme, helping medical educators and learning technologists develop virtual patients for their curriculum. Here Maren Ebert, a medical student at Heidelberg University in Germany talks about using CAMPUS virtual patients, and describes her experiences using these VPs.
