Learning and clinical reasoning experience of second-year medical pharmacology students and teachers with virtual patients developed using OpenLabyrinth
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Ashwin Kamath 1 , Sheetal D Ullal 1 *
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1 Department of Pharmacology, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, INDIA* Corresponding Author

Abstract

Objective: To determine the perceived usefulness of a virtual case scenario developed and delivered through the OpenLabyrinth platform among medical students and teachers.
Methods: 20 second-year medical students and 12 teachers of pharmacology were invited to complete a virtual case scenario exercise. The participants accessed the case scenario using their laptops or mobile devices. Participants’ feedback was obtained using the electronic virtual patient consortium-developed questionnaire.
Results: 19 students and 12 teachers provided feedback. All the faculty members and 95% of students felt that they had to make the same decisions a doctor would have to make in real life; ‘authenticity of patient encounter’ received the highest percentage of positive responses and ‘the learning effect’ the least.
Conclusions: The feedback obtained suggests that virtual case scenarios are likely to be well received by students and teachers. The availability of open-source software enables the use of this technology in resource-limited settings.

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Article Type: Original Article

ELECTRON J GEN MED, 2023, Volume 20, Issue 5, Article No: em509

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/13289

Publication date: 01 Sep 2023

Online publication date: 16 May 2023

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