Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
and
Virtual Worlds
COMPUTER-BASED PROBLEM SOLVING EXERCISES
and-
- According to Key-Feature-approach
(Page und Bordage 1995)
- Review
● Scenario..
● Choices and consequences
● Feedback to the student,
(based upon the consequences)
Type of VP
Groups
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5
Branche Branche Branche
1-5 Linear Linear
d d d
‘Paper’
• ‘Not having a paper copy of the tutorial makes everyone in the group
look at the screen rather than at each other.. ‘
• ‘I think probably, as a year, we are just used to having paper!’
• ‘I was dreading this as I am used to scribbling all over the notes as we
talk…Actually I found this OK.’
•
Why do we need VPs? (1 of 2)
I just killed
●Provide students with an opportunity to
develop and practice their clinical reasoning
the patient!
and decision making skills
A new programme
G1 – Subject- or discipline-based
G2 - System-based
G3 - Case based, but linear
G4 – Interactive with options, consequences
So, where next?
● “…options are all very well- but I would like to see infinite options,
not a few preset choices!”
M.Fischer, eViP project meeting , Munich 2008
● “Why are virtual patients not Virtual Patients –you know, people you
can ‘see’, who move around.. in your computer….” (!)
Daffyd Walters, Head of Paediatrics, St George’s
tpoulton@sgul.ac.uk