… the use of the term “virtual patient” and then classify its use in healthcare education. … use
of the term “virtual patient” with a focus on the healthcare education domain. We also outlined …

… Virtual Patients (VPs) have been in the focus of research in healthcare education for many
… was to analyze how virtual patients are described in the healthcare education literature, and …

… of virtual patients compared with traditional education, … education, compared with other
types of digital education, and design variants of virtual patients in health professions education. …

… this to occur in the use of educational technology in medical education. Our aim with this …
education—virtual patients (VPs)—in addressing specific challenges facing medical education. …

… all studies involving virtual patients for training health professionals. … are virtual patients in
comparison with no intervention and alternate instructional methods, and what virtual patient …

… outcomes such as communication skills, resource utilisation and longitudinal patient care.
This chapter will define virtual patients and examine the evidence behind their use in health …

… “virtual patient” has been referred to various educational tools and methods like simulated
patients in … to the concept of Virtual patients is based on platforms to use real patient records to …

… , all of which are very important areas for improvement in medical education. We agree that
there is also a place for virtual humans, virtual families, and virtual teams to address these …

… A search of primary literature was conducted with search terms including virtual patient,
education, health, AND learning. Boolean operators were applied to include studies from health …

… of Learning innovation and Design at Bayer Healthcare. His research interests are in use of
virtual scenarios across disciplines, online educational videos, m-learning applications, IPR …