A mobile virtual patient for medical learning

摘要

Many young doctors have their first experience of the anxiety of treating an acutely sick patient only during internship. Unfortunately, the risk of medical error is very high at this point. Learning through computer simulated virtual patient has been proven a solution to bridge this gap. Recent developments in electronic healthcare research have produced highly reliable patient simulators. This paper presents a mobile application which can be very readily accessible for medical education using virtual patients. At the current state of the research, a mobile application useful for medical education using virtual patients has been developed. It has been built in such a user-friendly manner after rigorous elicitation of knowledge from medical practitioners. It is particularly targeted at medical students who only need to input their user log-in to start using the application. A medical student can learn while also catching fun using this system.