Virtual patient simulation: What do students make of it? A focus group study

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Botezatu, Mihaela ^a   Hult, Håkan ^a   Fors, Uno G ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWEDEN; TEACHING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COMMUNICATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SWEDEN; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78649608023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-10-91     Document Type: Article

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