Virtual patients - What are we talking about? A framework to classify the meanings of the term in healthcare education

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kononowicz, Andrzej A ^a,b   Zary, Nabil ^a   Edelbring, Samuel ^a   Corral, Janet ^c   Hege, Inga ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Classification; Healthcare education; Virtual patients

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; SIMULATION TRAINING; TEACHING;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PATIENT-SPECIFIC MODELING; SIMULATION TRAINING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84924172321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12909-015-0296-3     Document Type: Article

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