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Interactive Simulated Patient: Experiences with Collaborative E-Learning in Medicine

2003; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 29; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2190/ut9b-f3e7-3p75-hpk5

1541-4140

R. Bergin, Patricia Youngblood, Mary K. Ayers, Jonas Boberg, Klara Bolander Laksov, Olivier Courteille, Parvati Dev, Hans Hindbeck, Edward E. Leonard, Jennifer R. Stringer, Anders Thalme, Uno Fors,

Evaluation of Teaching Practices

Interactive Simulated Patient (ISP) is a computer-based simulation tool designed to provide medical students with the opportunity to practice their clinical problem solving skills. The ISP system allows students to perform most clinical decision-making procedures in a simulated environment, including history taking in natural language, many hundreds of laboratory tests (e.g., images and endoscopy), and physical examination procedures. The system has been evaluated in a number of courses at three universities, Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University in Sweden, and Stanford University in the United States. This article describes a study conducted in 2002, with an emphasis on results that pertain to collaboration between students. Results indicate that ISP is engaging and stimulates more active student involvement than traditional paper-based case presentation methods and that students seem to collaborate more easily when using ISP compared to traditional paper-based methods.