Using interviews and observations in clinical practice to enhance authenticity in virtual patients for interprofessional education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interprofessional collaboration is increasingly important in healthcare, but interprofessional education (IPE) faces challenges, such as different study programmes with varied schedules and campuses. These challenges can be met, in part, by using web-based virtual patients (VPs) as a tool in IPE. However, demands for relevant patient presentations and clinical practice increase when VPs are used by students from different programmes. The aim of this study was to improve the presentation of professional perspectives regarding nurses and physicians and their collaboration in order to increase the clinical authenticity of existing VPs.

Methods

Clinical observations were conducted to gain familiarity with the context. Semi-structured interviews were performed with ind

SUBMITTER: Wiegleb Edstrom D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7687752 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature