Training staff to create simple interactive virtual patients: The impact on a medical and healthcare institution

Medical Teacher

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 764-769

  Round, Jonathan ^a   Conradi, Emily ^a   Poulton, Terry ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; TEACHING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 77449127540     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590903127677     Document Type: Article

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