Then the
real work of the project began. The student team met in order to outline the
goals of the case series and identify the topics that we want to cover. Since
case writing takes a formidable amount of time, we need to be judicious in the
cases that we choose. We wanted to create online, interactive, evidence-based
internal medicine virtual patient case series for clerkship students. We wanted
to emphasize management and knowledge integration through explicit discussion
of management rationale and making connections to clerkship skills such as how
to present cases, write admission orders, sign-over patient information, etc. I
also had the opportunity through this current Selective to conduct a literature
review on Virtual Patient cases and pilot our first case, in order to help
improve the quality of our cases.
A huge
flurry of activity also occurs behind the scenes including obtaining funding
for the project, getting in touch with Faculty Mentors to see how to best
integrate our project with the UofT Medicine curriculum, and trying out
different interfaces to find an efficient way to make our cases flow and
include assessement from the start.
I have
certainly learned a great deal through being involved in this project about
communication and teamwork, leading and managing a student initiative, as well
as the challenges of developing effective educational tools. Hopefully,
everything will come to fruition and we will eventually have a neat series of Internal
Medicine cases that will be helpful for students to come.
Here are a few good resources that my team and I were looking at to whet your appetite for Virtual Patients:
Family
Medicine Cases: https://sites.google.com/site/sharcfm/
NEJM Interactive Cases: http://www.nejm.org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/multimedia/interactive-medical-case-Jenny
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