Appraising the role of the virtual patient for therapeutics health education

Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 934-944

  Baumann Birkbeck, Lyndsee ^a   Florentina, Fiona ^a   Karatas, Onur ^a   Sun, Jianbe ^a   Tang, Tingna ^a   Thaung, Victor ^a   McFarland, Amelia ^a   Bernaitis, Nijole ^a   Khan, Sohil A ^a   Grant, Gary ^a   Anoopkumar Dukie, Shailendra ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Simulation; Therapeutics; Virtual patient

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL OUTCOME; COURSE CONTENT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING STYLE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STUDY DESIGN; TEACHING; THERAPY; VIRTUAL REALITY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, PHARMACY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROFESSIONAL ROLE;

EID: 85024131045     PISSN: 18771297     EISSN: 18771300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cptl.2017.05.012     Document Type: Review

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