Medical Students' Learning About Other Professions Using an Interprofessional Virtual Patient While Remotely Connected With a Study Group: Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Collaboration with other professions is essential in health care education to prepare students for future clinical teamwork. However, health care education still struggles to incorporate interprofessional education. Distance learning and virtual patients (VPs) may be useful additional methods to increase students' possibilities for interprofessional learning.

Objective

This study had two aims. The first was to assess if an interprofessional VP case could facilitate medical students' learning about team collaboration in online groups. The second was to assess how students experienced learning with the VP when remotely connected with their group.

Methods

A mixed methods design was used. The VP case was a 73-year-old man who needed help from different health p

SUBMITTER: Tran C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9890351 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature