Virtual Patient and medical history taking
8940
Virtual Human paper
published in 2005
by Amy Stevens, Jonathan Hernandez, Kyle Johnsen, Robert Dickerson, Andrew Raij, Cyrus Harrison, Meredith DiPietro, Jonathan Jackson, Min Shin and David Scott Lind
in
Agent's Expression,
Body motion,
Agent's Appearance,
Virtual reality,
Virtual worlds
At most institutions, medical students learn communication skills through the use of standardized patients (SP’s). Virtual patients (VP’s) may offer several advantages over SP’s, but little data exists regarding the use of VP’s in teaching communication skills. Therefore, we report our initial efforts to create an interactive virtual clinical scenario of a patient with acute abdominal pain to teach medical students history-taking and communication skills.