Whether it’s pandemic-driven closures/reopenings or the result of shifting institutional priorities, or increasing class sizes, simulation programs need to find new ways to deliver educational value across a wide range of dynamic challenges. In this brief article, we are going to share some first principles based recommendations on how to make your center better prepared…
Month: October 2020
Building Believable Personas for Digital Patients
Virtual Patients are experiencing a second renaissance. Conceptualized in the 1970s the virtual patient as a ‘human-replicant’ was closer to science fiction than reality, but what became attainable in the 90s and early 2000s was clickable multimedia experiences with various levels of interactivity (think the menu-driven, static screen patient). Not quite the ‘digital human’ that…