Background The term “virtual patients”(VPs) has been used for many years in academic
publications, but its meaning varies, leading to confusion. Our aim was to investigate and …

Ten Steps to Complex Learning presents a path from an educational problem to a solution in
a way that students, practitioners, and researchers can understand and easily use. Students …

Community-based frail older adults, burdened with complex medical and social needs, are
at great risk for preventable rapid rehospitalizations. Although federal and state regulations …

The medical education community is working—across disciplines and across the continuum—
to address the current challenges facing the medical education system and to implement …

Background: Simulation in healthcare lacks a dedicated framework and supporting
taxonomy for instructional design (ID) to assist educators in creating appropriate simulation …

Background: Online social networking use has increased rapidly among African American
and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM), making it important to understand how these …

A meta-analysis was performed to assess the Effect Size (ES) from randomized studies
comparing the effect of educational interventions in which Virtual patients (VPs) were used …

Background: The role of emotion is crucial to the learning process, as it is linked to
motivation, interest, and attention. Affective states are expressed in the brain and in overall …

Introduction Clinical reasoning has been fostered with varying case formats including the
use of virtual patients. Existing literature points to different conclusions regarding which …

Background Existing influenza surveillance in the United States is focused on the collection
of data from sentinel physicians and hospitals; however, the compilation and distribution of …