ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Planning a Collection of Virtual Patients to Train Clinical Reasoning: A Blueprint Representative of the European Population.
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- Systematic review on occupational medicine training in European medical schools.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Integrating virtual patients into undergraduate health professions curricula: a framework synthesis of stakeholders' opinions based on a systematic literature review.BMC medical education · 2024Pooled it
- Development and validation of virtual patients for assessing history taking and communication skills among medical students.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Applying ChatGPT to plan and create a realistic collection of virtual patients for clinical reasoning training.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Collaborative Development of Feedback Concept Maps for Virtual Patient-Based Clinical Reasoning Education: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR medical education · 2025Article
- Gamification in the Design of Virtual Patients for Swedish Military Medics to Support Trauma Training: Interaction Analysis and Semistructured Interview Study.JMIR serious games · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundVirtual patients (VPs) are a suitable method for students to train their clinical reasoning abilities. We describe a process of developing a blueprint for a diverse and realistic VP collection (prior to VP creation) that facilitates deliberate practice of clinical reasoning and meets educational requirements of medical schools.
methodsAn international and interdisciplinary partnership of five European countries developed a blueprint for a collection of 200 VPs in four steps: (1) Defining the criteria (e.g., key symptoms, age, sex) and categorizing them into disease-, patient-, encounter- and learner-related, (2) Identifying data sources for assessing the representativeness of the collection, (3) Populating the blueprint, and (4) Refining and reaching consensus.
resultsThe blueprint is publicly available and covers 29 key symptoms and 176 final diagnoses including the most prevalent medical conditions in Europe. Moreover, our analyses showed that the blueprint appears to be representative of the European population.
conclusionsThe development of the blueprint required a stepwise approach, which can be replicated for the creation of other VP or case collections. We consider the blueprint an appropriate starting point for the actual creation of the VPs, but constant updating and refining is needed.
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