Implementing Remote Collaboration in a Virtual Patient Platform: Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Learning with virtual patients is highly popular for fostering clinical reasoning in medical education. However, little learning with virtual patients is done collaboratively, despite the potential learning benefits of collaborative versus individual learning.

Objective

This paper describes the implementation of student collaboration in a virtual patient platform. Our aim was to allow pairs of students to communicate remotely with each other during virtual patient learning sessions. We hypothesized that we could provide a collaborative tool that did not impair the usability of the system compared to individual learning and that this would lead to better diagnostic accuracy for the pairs of students.

Methods

Implementing the collaboration tool had five steps

SUBMITTER: Kiesewetter J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9377431 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature