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September 2006

eViPwww.virtualpatients.eu

By Chara Balasubramaniam on behalf of the eViP teamSt George’s University of London

The story so far

Introduction to Virtual PatientseViP BackgroundProject outputs

Programme outcomes

http://www.virtualpatients.eu/

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What is an Electronic Virtual Patient?

“an interactive computer simulation of real-life clinical scenarios for the purpose of medical training, education, or assessment”

• Clinical reasoning

• Learn from mistakes

• Expensive and time consuming to produce

Repurpose and enrich existing VPs as an effective way to share



electronic Virtual Patients

To create a shared online bank of virtual patients, adapted for multicultural and multilingual use, for the improved

quality and efficiency of medical and healthcare education across the EU

• 3-Year Programme involving 6 separate projects

• 8 European partner institutions and other collaborators

• Co-funded by the European Commission



eViP Partners and Collaborators

Partners:St George’s, University of London, UKKarolinska Institutet, SwedenLudwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, GermanyUniversity of Warwick, UKFaculty of Medicine at Universiteit Maastricht, NetherlandsFaculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University, GermanyUniversity of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaUniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland

Collaborators:MedBiquitousCreative CommonsNorthern Ontario School of MedicineIVIMEDS



The eViP Programme and Projects

The programme is achieved by the following projects:2. Pilot case study and evaluation (SGUL)3. Standards implementation (KI)4. VP repurposing and enrichment (KI)5. Awareness and dissemination (WAR)6. Assessment and evaluation (UM)7. Exit and sustainability (LMU)

Programme and project management

So, what’s happened in the first 8 months of the Programme?

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Project 1

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Project 2

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Project 3

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Project 4

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Project 5

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Project 6

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PGM & PM


• A total of 19 VPs were repurposed and enriched• Repurposing workflows outlining best practice were created• Evaluation of pilot VPs by students, teaching staff, and VPcreators were conducted, analysed and documented

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UMWorkflow

Identify ‘paediatric VPs’ delivered in HDSTART

Lars

FINISH

Select VPs from HD not yet

available in UM

Review selected HD VPs by

experts at UM

Discuss suitability of German VPs for Dutch curriculum and identify

missing content to enrich

Adapt Virtual Learning

Environment to fit the VP

Customise VP player user-

interface (e.g. from HD to UM)

Select VP and translate (German to Dutch culture)

Check language with native speaker

Repurpose and enrich VP for local

culture and educational scenario

Test and GO-LIVE

Repurposing to different cultures,for multilingual use,

to different educational levels,to different educational scenarios,

for different subject-disciplines and to different VP structures

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Project 1 outputs (pilot study)


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• An eViP application profile published• Partners are making advances with their systems

• First draft of the eViP commons created• Creative Commons Learn collaboration has started

eViP Commons

Can be any one of the following attributions :

Share alike

No derivatives

Non-commercial

Non-commercial share alike

Non commercial no derivatives

Partners license existing

VPs

Available to ALL under a specific license


Project 2 outputs (standards implementation)


eViP

• Detailed VP content inventory of all partner VPs created• Partners started repurposing and enriching existing VPs• Referatory requirements currently being gathered


Project 3 outputs (repurposing & enrichment)


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• 8 case studies created for use of VPs• eViP website, including blog and internal wiki, is now live:www.virtualpatients.eu • Published newsletters, articles, and web snippets• MedBiq Europe established


Project 4 outputs (awareness & dissemination)




Project 5 outputs (assessment & evaluation)

• Inventory of VP designs and scenarios created and published• Articles submitted and published (national and international)• Assessment and evaluation tools available


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eViP

• Referatory of 320+ collective VPs for multilingual, multicultural access, and integrated into curricula

• Tried and tested standards • Sustainable network of faculties for the development

and exchange of VPs• Common content licensing model

Major resource for medical and healthcare education to be shared by all institutions across

Europe

eViP Programme Outcomes

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