Training with virtual patients in transcultural psychiatry: Do the learners actually learn?

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Pantziaras, Ioannis ^a   Fors, Uno ^b   Ekblad, Solvig ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Education; Medical informatics; Mental health; Patient simulation; PTSD; Transcultural psychiatry; Virtual systems

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TEACHING;

ADULT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SIMULATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84925688354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3497     Document Type: Article

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