Understanding empathy training with virtual patients

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 151-158

  Kleinsmith, Andrea ^a   Rivera Gutierrez, Diego ^a   Finney, Glen ^b   Cendan, Juan ^c   Lok, Benjamin ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Human computer interaction; Medical education; Standardized patient; Virtual patient

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMMUNICATION SKILLS; EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS; EMPATHY; PAIR-WISE COMPARISON; STANDARDIZED PATIENT; UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA; VIRTUAL CHARACTER; VIRTUAL PATIENTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84930947263     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.05.033     Document Type: Article

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