Real-world virtual patient simulation to improve diagnostic performance through deliberate practice: a prospective quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Diagnostic errors are pervasive in medicine and most often caused by clinical reasoning failures. Clinical presentations characterized by nonspecific symptoms with broad differential diagnoses (e.g., dizziness) are especially prone to such errors.

Methods

We hypothesized that novice clinicians could achieve proficiency diagnosing dizziness by training with virtual patients (VPs). This was a prospective, quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest study (2019) at a single academic medical center. Internal medicine interns (intervention group) were compared to second/third year residents (control group). A case library of VPs with dizziness was developed from a clinical trial (AVERT-NCT02483429). The approach (VIPER - Virtual Interactive Practice to build Expertise using R

SUBMITTER: Kotwal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9023126 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature