An e-learning platform for clinical reasoning in cardiovascular diseases: a study reporting on learner and tutor satisfaction
The Virtual Patient platform enables medical students to virtually replicate hospital interactions, diagnose patients, and plan treatments in clinically valid scenarios for cardiovascular diseases. User evaluations demonstrated high satisfaction and appreciation for the platform's features. Future work will focus on expanding medical cases, enhancing the dialogue module, improving scenario generation for complex cases, and extending the synthetic data generation component to produce additional types of medical investigations.
Authors
- Imad Alex Awada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5783-2428)
- Alexandru Scafa‐Udriște (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3207-1025)
- Adina Magda Florea (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7249-1871)
Institutions
- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (RO)
- Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București (RO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medical Education
- Published
- 2024-09-10
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05938-6
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.09
Funders
- Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii