Virtual patients designed for training against medical error: Exploring the impact of decision-making on learner motivation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Medical error is a significant cause of patient harms in clinical practice, but education and training are recognised as having a key role in minimising their incidence. The use of virtual patient (VP) activities targeting training in medical error allows learners to practice patient management in a safe environment. The inclusion of branched decision-making elements in the activities has the potential to drive additional generative cognitive processing and improved learning outcomes, but the increased cognitive load on learning risks negatively affecting learner motivation. The aim of this study is to better understand the impact that the inclusion of decision-making and inducing errors within the VP activities has on learner motivation.

Methods

Using a repeated

SUBMITTER: Woodham LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6478293 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature