Educating resident physicians using virtual case-based simulation improves diabetes management: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To test a virtual case-based Simulated Diabetes Education intervention (SimDE) developed to teach primary care residents how to manage diabetes.

Method

Nineteen primary care residency programs, with 341 volunteer residents in all postgraduate years (PGY), were randomly assigned to a SimDE intervention group or control group (CG). The Web-based interactive educational intervention used computerized virtual patients who responded to provider actions through programmed simulation models. Eighteen distinct learning cases (L-cases) were assigned to SimDE residents over six months from 2010 to 2011. Impact was assessed using performance on four virtual assessment cases (A-cases), an objective knowledge test, and pre-post changes in self-assessed diabetes knowledge and conf

SUBMITTER: Sperl-Hillen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4245358 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature