Study of the Impact of Virtual Patient Designs on the Reasoning Pattern and Therapeutic Decision Making

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

58 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2007-02-28

Study Completion Date

2007-03-31

Brief Summary

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There is a lack of evidence of the impact of the information provided in the introduction screen on the students diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. The reasoning pattern may also be altered if positive findings are provided to the student without an active request for it.

The results will be of importance when virtual patients are used for assessing students.

Detailed Description

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The problem-solving approach is found in virtual patient designs concerned with teaching clinical reasoning and diagnosis. Generally the student has to collect a range of information, usually from menus of possible history questions, physical examination, and lab tests, and make diagnostic and therapeutic decisions based on their findings. The information is not cued - the student have to decide what is relevant. An introduction screen is shown to the student when the virtual patient is initiated. Case author have used it differently - some entered a complete chief complaint and part of anamnesis findings while other have not disclosed anything about the patient. There is a lack of evidence of the impact of the information provided in the introduction screen on the students diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. The reasoning pattern may also be altered if positive findings are provided to the student without an active request for it.

The results will be of importance when virtual patients are used for assessing students.

Conditions

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Decision Making Computer-Assisted

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Interventions

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Virtual patient is NOT introduced

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* All the students enrolled in the comprehensive dentistry course at the time of the study (2007)

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Principal Investigators

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Uno Fors

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

LIME, Karolinska Institutet

Locations

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School of dentistry, Karolinska Institutet

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

References

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Zary N, Johnson G, Boberg J, Fors UG. Development, implementation and pilot evaluation of a Web-based Virtual Patient Case Simulation environment--Web-SP. BMC Med Educ. 2006 Feb 21;6:10. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-6-10.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

PMID: 16504041 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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VP-02-001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id