Virtual patients versus small-group teaching in the training of oral and maxillofacial surgery: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Computerized virtual patients (VP) have spread into many areas of healthcare delivery and medical education. They provide various advantages like flexibility in pace and space of learning, a high degree of teaching reproducibility and a cost effectiveness. However, the educational benefit of VP as an additive or also as an alternative to traditional teaching formats remains unclear. Moreover, there are no randomized-controlled studies that investigated the use of VP in a dental curriculum. Therefore, this study investigates VP as an alternative to lecturer-led small-group teaching in a curricular, randomized and controlled setting. METHODS:Randomized and controlled cohort study. Four VP cases were created according to previously published design principles and compared with lect

SUBMITTER: Seifert LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6894350 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature