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Virtual patients are computer simulations that are used in health care education to provide students with simulated clinical experiences. They are designed to mimic the appearance, behavior, and symptoms of real patients, and can be used to teach a variety of clinical skills, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and communication.
Virtual patients are typically interactive, allowing students to ask questions, perform physical exams, and make treatment decisions. They may be used in a variety of educational settings, including medical schools, nursing schools, and other health care training programs.
One of the main benefits of using virtual patients in health care education is that they allow students to practice clinical skills in a safe and controlled environment, without the risk of harming real patients. This can be particularly useful for teaching complex or rare conditions, or for providing students with additional practice in a particular area.
In addition, virtual patients can be customized to fit the specific needs and goals of an educational program, and can be used to teach a wide range of clinical skills and concepts. They may be used in combination with other teaching methods, such as lectures and hands-on clinical simulations, to provide a more comprehensive and immersive learning experience.
Virtual patient simulation is the use of computer-based simulations to replicate real-world clinical scenarios in a virtual environment. Virtual patient simulations are often used in health care education to provide students with simulated clinical experiences that mimic the appearance, behavior, and symptoms of real patients.
Virtual patient simulations can be interactive, allowing students to ask questions, perform physical exams, and make treatment decisions. They may be used in a variety of educational settings, including medical schools, nursing schools, and other health care training programs.
Virtual patient simulations are typically designed to be as realistic as possible, replicating the appearance and behavior of real patients as closely as possible. They may be used to teach a wide range of clinical skills and concepts, including diagnosis, treatment planning, and communication.
One of the main benefits of using virtual patient simulations in health care education is that they allow students to practice clinical skills in a safe and controlled environment, without the risk of harming real patients. This can be particularly useful for teaching complex or rare conditions, or for providing students with additional practice in a particular area.
Resources:
- virtualpatients.eu .. bank of 320 repurposed and enriched virtual patients
- vp.acponline.org .. medical education program that uses virtual patient simulation
Wikipedia:
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M Ochs, P Blache, G De Montcheuil… – Proceedings of the …, 2018 – aclweb.org
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When interpreting questions in a virtual patient dialogue system one must inevitably tackle the challenge of a long tail of relatively infrequently asked questions. To make progress on this challenge, we investigate the use of paraphrasing for data augmentation and neural …
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Dating a Synthetic Character is Like Dating a Man
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… Users also build up positive and neg- ative expectations about interacting with the character (factor Valence). If the user talks to a chatbot and expects it to have an understanding of the conversational context, the interaction will be disappointing (ie evoke negative valence) …
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EMTI zur Individuellen, AM mit Demenz – Zukunft der Pflege … – researchgate.net
… BT Technology Journal 22 (4), 211—226. [10] Pröpper R, Putze F, Schultz T (2011). JAM: Java-based Associative Memory. In: Proceedings of the Paralinguistic Information and its Integration in Spoken Dialogue Systems Workshop. pp. 143—155 …
Criterion scores, construct validity and reliability of a web-based instrument to assess physiotherapists’ clinical reasoning focused on behaviour change:’ …
M Elvén, J Hochwälder, E Dean, O Hällman… – AIMS public …, 2018 – ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Modeling the influence of seasonal differences in the HPA axis on synchronization of the circadian clock and cell cycle
K Pierre, RT Rao, C Hartmanshenn… – …, 2018 – academic.oup.com
Mathematical modeling shows that seasonal differences in cortisol circadian rhythmicity can result in differential synchronization of the circadian clock and mi.
Predicting parkinsonism side-effects of antipsychotic polypharmacy prescribed in secondary mental healthcare
G Kadra, A Spiros, H Shetty, E Iqbal… – Journal of …, 2018 – journals.sagepub.com
Background: Computer-modelling approaches have the potential to predict the interactions between different antipsychotics and provide guidance for polypharmacy….
Development and validation of recipes using consumers’ terms obtained through the application of the Think Aloud technique
A Lezama Solano – 2018 – krex.k-state.edu
… At this point, dough is a composite containing elastic gluten-rich and starch-rich regions (Bot & Bruijne, 2003; Gajula, 2017; Schiedt, Baumann, Conde-Petit, & Vilgis, 2013) … water at the same time that air is incorporated forming bubbles (Bot & Bruijne, 2003; Schiedt et al., 2013) …
Technoscience and (critical) digital epidemiology. Towards new ontological shifts in the global management of biomedical emergencies.
MI Gavris – 2018 – ddd.uab.cat
… Page 28. 27 bots to perform a sematic scan of virtual networks based on Internet searches mentioning flu symptoms, etc.) (Caduff, 2012). Going beyond technological enthusiasm, this new context poses several controversies and gaps (Lakoff, 2015; Shaikh et al …
Health-ATM: A deep architecture for multifaceted patient health record representation and risk prediction
T Ma, C Xiao, F Wang – Proceedings of the 2018 SIAM International …, 2018 – SIAM
… 3.1 Basic Layers: Contextual Embedding and RNN Learning distributed representations or word embeddings has proved particularly useful in various natural language processing tasks, and has also gained initial success in medical concept embeddings [14, 12] …
Identifying factors that influence the acceptability of smart devices: implications for recommendations
K Zhan, I Zukerman, A Partovi – User Modeling and User-Adapted …, 2018 – Springer
This paper presents results from a web-based study that investigates users’ attitudes toward smart devices, focusing on acceptability. Specifically, we conducted a survey that elicits users’ ratings…
Making NHS data work for everyone
E Harwich, R Lasko-Skinner – 2018 – reform.uk
Page 1. Making NHS data work for everyone Eleonora Harwich Rose Lasko-Skinner #reformNHSdata December 2018 Page 2. Page 3. 1 Making NHS data work for everyone Eleonora Harwich Rose Lasko-Skinner December 2018 Page 4. 2 Acknowledgements Advisory board …
Invited Session1-The Micro-Randomized Trial Design For Developing Adaptive Mobile Health Interventions
A WALTON – sctweb.org
… Brian Bot will discuss future perspectives, including open access to all patient data, access to analysis code for reproducible research, and other open access paradigms that could be transformative for future clinical research …
Article in Press IJIMAI journal
AM Sandoval, J Díaz, LC Llanos, T Redondo – researchgate.net
… Keywords Biomedical Terminology, Natural Language Processing, Term Recognition, Information Extraction. Abstract … Several natural language processing (NLP) techniques were utilized. First, each collection was processed and tags for part-of-speech were included …
Clinical Pharmacy Education, Practice and Research: Clinical Pharmacy, Drug Information, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacoeconomics and Clinical Research
D Thomas – 2018 – books.google.com
Page 1. Clinical Pharmacy Education, Practice and Research Clinical Pharmacy, Drug information, Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacoeconomics and Clinical Research Edited by Dixon Thomas Reviewers. Jason C. Cooper – Hong …
Analysing repeated hospital readmissions using data mining techniques
O Ben-Assuli, R Padman – Health Systems, 2018 – orsociety.tandfonline.com
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King’s Research Portal
D Bhugra, A Tasman, S Pathare, S Priebe, S Smith… – kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
Page 1. King’s Research Portal DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(17)30333-4 Document Version Peer reviewed version Link to publication record in King’s Research Portal Citation for published version (APA): Bhugra, D., Tasman …
What Do Studies of Learning Analytics Reveal About Learning and Instruction? A Systematic Literature Review
JE Lee, M Recker – Learning, Design, and Technology: An International …, 2018 – Springer
Page 1. What Do Studies of Learning Analytics Reveal About Learning and Instruction? A Systematic Literature Review Ji Eun Lee and Mimi Recker Contents Introduction …
Development and innovation of system resources to optimize patient care
TJ Johnson, MJ Brownlee – The Bulletin of the American Society …, 2018 – academic.oup.com
Purpose. Various incremental and disruptive healthcare innovations that are occurring or may occur are discussed, with insights on how multihospital health sys.
E-Learning Research Report 2017. Analysis of the main topics in research indexed articles
N Molas Castells, M Fuertes Alpiste – openaccess.uoc.edu
Page 1. E-Learning Research Report 2017 Analysis of the main topics in research indexed articles Page 2. Page 3. Credits Owning institution: eLearn Center. Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Coordinators: Lluís Pastor, Guillem Garcia Brustenga & Antoni Pérez …
Digital workplace learning: Bridging formal and informal learning with digital technologies
D Ifenthaler – 2018 – Springer
… and computer-based methodologies for the assessment, analysis, and feedback of graph- ical and natural language representations, as … mainly are faculty development, blended learning, e-learning, m-learning, technology integration in medical educa- tion, and virtual patients …
Trends in learning analytics practices: a review of higher education institutions
BTM Wong, KC Li, SPM Choi – Interactive Technology and …, 2018 – emeraldinsight.com
Preference learning in assistive robotics: Observational repeated inverse reinforcement learning
B Woodworth, F Ferrari, TE Zosa… – Machine Learning for …, 2018 – proceedings.mlr.press
Page 1. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 85:1–19, 2018 Machine Learning for Healthcare Preference Learning in Assistive Robotics: Observational Repeated Inverse Reinforcement Learning Bryce Woodworth, Francesco …
Models, Devices, Properties, and Verification of Artificial Pancreas Systems.
T Kushner, BW Bequette, F Cameron, G Forlenza… – cs.colorado.edu
… [32, 41, 69, 111] In 2013, the UVA/Padova simulator was updated to include the notion that insulin-dependent utilization of glucose increases nonlinearly when glucose falls below a selected threshold, and the generation of “virtual patients” was updated [109] …
The Digital Turn in Higher Education
D Kergel, B Heidkamp, PK Telléus, T Rachwal… – 2018 – Springer
David Kergel· Birte Heidkamp Patrik Kjærsdam Telléus· Tadeusz Rachwal Samuel Nowakowski Editors The Digital Turn in Higher Education International Perspectives on Learning and Teaching in a Changing World Page 2. The Digital Turn in Higher Education Page 3 …
Postoperative remote automated monitoring: need for and state of the science
MH McGillion, E Duceppe, K Allan, M Marcucci… – Canadian Journal of …, 2018 – Elsevier
… Reproduced with permission from Cloud DX (Kitchener, ON). Recent feasibility studies21, 22 have examined the application of RAM systems in combination with hospital-to-home virtual patient engagement interfaces. Such …
Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
DC Martins, PM Burbank – … Health Nursing-E-Book: Promoting the …, 2018 – books.google.com
Page 123. 7 Community Health Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation OUTLINE Overview of Health Planning, 108 Health Planning Model, 109 Assessment, 110 Planning, 112 Intervention, 112 Evaluation, 113 Health Planning …
A review of virtual reality technologies in the field of communication disability: implications for practice and research
L Bryant, M Brunner, B Hemsley – Disability and Rehabilitation …, 2018 – Taylor & Francis
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Virtual Reality Game for Social Cue Detection Training
A Þórðarson – 2018 – arithordarson.com
… conversations with. The system was built in a way that allowed the virtual patient to respond in multiple different ways, making each practice session unique. According … personnel [10]. It uses virtual reality and natural language technologies. A …
Future Directions of Digital Health
B Mesko – Digital Health, 2018 – Springer
… At the very least, the virtual patients must almost perfectly mimic the physiology of the target patients, with all of the variation that actual … OK Google, and Amazon’s Echo services are nifty in the way that they extract questions from speech using natural-language processing and …
Predictive modeling in e-mental health: A common language framework
D Becker, W van Breda, B Funk, M Hoogendoorn… – Internet …, 2018 – Elsevier
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Biomedical informatics on the cloud: a treasure hunt for advancing cardiovascular medicine
P Ping, H Hermjakob, JS Polson, PV Benos… – Circulation …, 2018 – Am Heart Assoc
Volunteer; Warning signs. Search. Advanced Search. Donate. Circulation Research logo. Hello Guest! MY ALERTS. SIGN IN; JOIN. Login to your account. Email. Password. Forgot password? Keep me logged in. Submit your article; AHA Logo. Search …
An Investigation of Autism Support Groups on Facebook
Y Zhao – 2018 – dc.uwm.edu
Page 1. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee UWM Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations August 2018 An Investigation of Autism Support Groups on Facebook Yuehua Zhao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.uwm.edu/etd …
Factors Influencing Information Literacy Self-Efficacy of Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students
M White – 2018 – knowledge.library.iup.edu
Page 1. Indiana University of Pennsylvania Knowledge Repository @ IUP Theses and Dissertations (All) 12-2018 Factors Influencing Information Literacy Self- Efficacy of Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students Meagan White …
Healing the Healers: Legal Remedies for Physician Burnout
S Hoffman – Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics (2019 …, 2018 – papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. Electronic copy available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3244831 CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY Healing the Healers: Legal Remedies for Physician Burnout Sharona Hoffman Case Research Paper Series in Legal Studies …
Journal of Medical Internet Research
T Arvanitis, G Eysenbach, J Woodall, G Eysenbach… – asset.jmir.pub
Page 1. Journal of Medical Internet Research Impact Factor (2015): 4.532 – ranked #1 medical informatics journal by Impact Factor Volume 1 (1999), Issue suppl1. ISSN: 1438-8871 Editor in Chief: Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH CONTENTS Abstracts …
Clinical simulations using virtual patient avatars for pre-registration pharmacist training: a mixed methods evaluation
J Thompson – 2018 – core.ac.uk
… Page 3. ii Abstract Virtual patients (VPs) are routinely used in the training of medicine and nursing professionals but uptake into pharmacy has been slower … This programme of work aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual patients (VPs) at supporting pre-registration training …
Scripting and Orchestration of a Knowledge Community and Inquiry Curriculum for Secondary Biology
A Acosta – 2018 – search.proquest.com
Scripting and Orchestration of a Knowledge Community and Inquiry Curriculum for Secondary Biology. Abstract. This dissertation describes a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) curriculum and corresponding technology environment called CKBiology …