Mind wandering has an impact in electronic teaching cases

摘要

Editor - We read with interest the article by Smallwood et al.1 and the accompanying commentaries by Hilton and Berner3 regarding mind wandering in clinical medicine. We believe the principles proposed are equally applicable to e-learning instruction that uses clinical cases in the form of 'virtual patients' (VPs) and have evidence to support the impact of mind wandering on learning and simulated student performance.