Abstract

D'ADDINO, José Luis; MAYORGA, Horacio  and  HARRIS, M. Ángeles. The virtual patient as a teaching method in undergraduate. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2015, vol.18, n.5, pp.325-330. ISSN 2014-9840.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S2014-98322015000600006.

Aims: To present a virtual program about a practical work in Surgery using the web through problem based learning and to evaluate the student opinion. Subjects and methods: Retrospective and lineal analysis. We included all the students in the last five years, with average of 18 students each one. Total: 90 pupils. Were established with each of the tutors, management guidelines and monitoring of each surgical case report that was given every student. All the students had a different case, repeated annually in each course. Some tutors had only one case and others two. Each pupil agrees with the tutor the easiest way to have a communication between them, such as phone, e-mail o in person. The tutor had to encourage the information research and make the student responsible of the patient. Every one of the cases, previously set, should have complications, some were extern and others died. Based on the number of students in each course, we decided the cases, always trying to find out cases according with the classes taught by the tutor and his specialization. Results: The virtual program about a practical work in surgery has been very useful for the pupils and improved the relation between them and tutors. The search with students showed a 100% of satisfaction with this project, the same as with the tutors search. Conclusion: The initiative of a working with a virtual patient has been extremely successful for both students and tutors.

Keywords : Virtual patient.

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