Background Modern medical pedagogical strategies are shifting toward the use of virtual
patient simulations. Objective This study aims to examine students' users' attitudes and …

Objective Contextual factors are known to influence the acquisition and application of
communication skills in clinical settings. Little is known about residents' perceptions of these …

Background: Although communication skills training (CST) enhances patient-centred skills
and attitudes, the literature indicates a problematic transfer of these from education into …

Purpose To examine the impact of simulated medical consultations using standardized
patients (SPs) on the empathy levels of fourth-and sixth-year students at the Unicamp …

Purpose To explore students' perceptions of virtual patient use in the clinical clerkship and
develop a framework to evaluate effects of different integration strategies on students' …

Objective To examine the effectiveness of simulation-based interventions in improving
empathy among healthcare students. Design A systematic review and meta-analysis of …

Background: Web-based clinical cases (“virtual patients”, VPs) provide the potential for valid,
cost-effective teaching and assessment of clinical skills, especially clinical reasoning skills …

BACKGROUND: Significant information exchange occurs between a doctor and patient
through nonverbal communication such as gestures, body position, and eye gaze. In …

St George's University of London (SGUL) has a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum
for its undergraduate medicine course, using traditional paper-based patient cases. To …

Background During clinical placements, clinical educators facilitate student learning.
Previous research has defined the skills, attitudes and practices that pertain to an ideal …