A pediatric digital storytelling system for third year medical students: The Virtual Pediatric Patients

dc.creator	D'Alessandro Michael P
dc.creator	Lewis Tamra E
dc.creator	D'Alessandro Donna M
dc.date	2004-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:19:37Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:19:37Z
dc.identifier	10.1186/1472-6920-4-10
dc.identifier	1472-6920
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/bddcfa19bf854e17bd1ffaf338430918
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/19801
dc.description	<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Computer-based patient simulations (CBPS) are common, effective, instructional methods for medical students, but have limitations.</p> <p>The goal of this project was to describe the development of a CBPS designed to overcome some of these limitations and to perform an online evaluation.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>In 1996, patients and families experiencing a common pediatric problem were interviewed, photographed and a chart review completed. A digital storytelling template was developed: 1. patient's story, evaluation and clinical course, 2. problem-based approach to the evaluation, and 3. discussion of disease process. The media was digitized and placed onto the Internet. The digital stories and a 10-question online survey were pilot tested. Online survey responses were collected from 1999–2003. Overall use of the digital stories was measured by computer server logs and by the number of hyperlinks to the CBPS.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Eight stories were created using this system. Over 4.5 years, 814,148 digital story pages were read by 362,351 users. Hyperlink citations from other websites to the CBPS were 108. Online survey respondents (N = 393) described the overall quality as excellent or very good (88.4%). The stores were clearly written (92%) at an appropriate level (91.4%). Respondents felt they could begin to evaluate a similar case presentation (95.4%), and would remember the case in the future (91%).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>A new type of CBPS, the digital storytelling system, has been developed and evaluated which and appears to be successful in overcoming some of the limitations of earlier CBPS by featuring patient's stories in their own words, by focusing on problems rather than diseases, and by having stories that are quick for students to work through.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	BioMed Central
dc.relation	http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/4/10
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6920
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	BMC Medical Education, Vol 4, Iss 1, p 10 (2004)
dc.subject	medical students
dc.subject	medical education
dc.subject	computer based patient simulations
dc.subject	problem based learning
dc.subject	digital stories
dc.subject	PDL
dc.subject	CAI
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
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dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
dc.subject	R
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Medicine (General)
dc.subject	R5-920
dc.subject	Medicine
dc.subject	R
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	A pediatric digital storytelling system for third year medical students: The Virtual Pediatric Patients
dc.type	article