The effectiveness of using virtual patient educational tools to improve medical students' clinical reasoning skills: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Use of virtual patient educational tools could fill the current gap in the teaching of clinical reasoning skills. However, there is a limited understanding of their effectiveness. The aim of this study was to synthesise the evidence to understand the effectiveness of virtual patient tools aimed at improving undergraduate medical students' clinical reasoning skills.

Methods

We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ERIC, Scopus, Web of Science and PsycINFO from 1990 to January 2022, to identify all experimental articles testing the effectiveness of virtual patient educational tools on medical students' clinical reasoning skills. Quality of the articles was assessed using an adapted form of the MERSQI and the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. A narrative synthesis summarised inter

SUBMITTER: Plackett R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9098350 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature