An innovative blended learning approach using virtual patients as preparation for skills laboratory training: Perceptions of students and tutors

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lehmann, Ronny ^a   Bosse, Hans Martin ^b   Simon, Anke ^a   Nikendei, Christoph ^c   Huwendiek, Sören ^d  

^a Centre of Child and Adolescent Medicine   (Germany)

^b Department of General Paediatrics   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blended learning; Medical education; Skills laboratory; Virtual patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873700206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-23     Document Type: Article

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