The role of intellectual property in creating, sharing and repurposing virtual patients

Campbell, Gabrielle; Miller, Angela; Balasubramaniam, Chara

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“…Concerning the challenges of developing and using VPs, mainly legal and technical challenges were mentioned. Legal issues included management of rights, permissions, and copyright issues [ 27 , 28 ]; technical issues were, for example, management of hard- and software, technology support, unreliable internet connection, difficulty in editing a VP, or cross-platform compatibility [ 27 , 29 ]. Other challenges were low content validity and reliability [ 30 ], difficulty of integration into a curriculum [ 29 ], and a non-realistic, impersonal, and isolated learning experience [ 31 ].…”

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A qualitative analysis of virtual patient descriptions in healthcare education based on a systematic literature review

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BackgroundVirtual Patients (VPs) have been in the focus of research in healthcare education for many years. The aim of our study was to analyze how virtual patients are described in the healthcare education literature, and how the identified concepts relate to each other.MethodsWe performed a literature review and extracted 185 descriptions of virtual patients from the articles. In a qualitative content analysis approach we inductively-deductively developed categories and deducted subcategories. We constructed a concept map to illustrate these concepts and their interrelations.ResultsWe developed the following five main categories: Patient, Teacher, Virtual Patient, Curriculum, and Learner. The concept map includes these categories and highlights aspects such as the under-valued role of patients in shaping their virtual representation and opposing concepts, such as standardization of learner activity versus learner-centeredness.ConclusionsThe presented concept map synthesizes VP descriptions and serves as a basis for both, VP use and discussions of research topics related to virtual patients.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12909-016-0655-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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A qualitative analysis of virtual patient descriptions in healthcare education based on a systematic literature review

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“…The MedBiquitous Virtual Patient standard is now adopted by all the major Virtual Patient systems in Europe and North America [21]. Legal issues, related to patient consent for distribution of multimedia [22] and intellectual property rights, digital copyright issues and licensing/sharing model [23], should be clarified. Other important aspects include specific approaches to metadata, vocabularies, language and cultural norms, all of which make up the commons’ specific profile [1].…”

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Language, culture and international exchange of virtual patients

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BackgroundLanguage and cultural differences could be a limiting factor for the international exchange of Virtual Patients (VPs), especially for small countries and languages of limited circulation. Our research evaluated whether it would be feasible to develop a VP based educational program in our Romanian institution, with cases in English and developed in a non-Romanian setting.MethodThe participants in the research comprised 4th year Romanian medical students from the Faculty of Medicine in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with previous training exclusively in Romanian, good English proficiency and no experience with VPs. The students worked on eight VPs in two identical versions, Romanian and English. The first group (2010) of 136 students worked with four VPs developed in Cluj and the second group (2011) of 144 students with four VPs originally developed at an US University. Every student was randomly assigned two different VPs, one in Romanian and another in English. Student activity throughout the case, the diagnosis, therapeutic plan and diagnosis justification were recorded. We also compared student performance on the two VPs versions, Romanian and English and the student performance on the two sets of cases, originally developed in Romania, respectively USA.ResultsWe found no significant differences between the students’ performance on the Romanian vs. English version of VPs. Regarding the students’ performance on the two sets of cases, in those originally developed in Romania, respectively in the USA, we found a number of statistically significant differences in the students’ activity through the cases. There were no statistically significant differences in the students’ ability to reach the correct diagnosis and therapeutic plan.ConclusionThe development of our program with VPs in English would be feasible, cost-effective and in accordance with the globalization of medical education.

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“…When repurposing VPs, intellectual property rights play a critical role. Relevant aspects on this have been published by Campbell and colleagues [5].…”

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The Virtual Patient for Education and Training: A Critical Review of the Literature

Haag¹,

Huwendiek

2010

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Nowadays, virtual patients are becoming increasingly essential for high-quality medical education since there are not enough actual patients available for educational and training purposes. However, development and curricular integration of virtual patients is challenging and time consuming. This review gives an overview on relevant aspects of development and usage of virtual patients and shows the current state of development. The included information is sourced from relevant literature of the last 15 years and the longstanding experience of the authors in the relevant fields.Zusammenfassung Virtuelle Patienten werden in der modernen Medizinerausbildung immer wichtiger, weil nicht in ausreichendem Umfang "echte" Patienten für die Ausbildung zur Verfügung stehen. Die Entwicklung und curriculare Integration von virtuellen Patienten ist allerdings sehr anspruchsvoll und zeitaufwändig. Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über relevante Aspekte der Entwicklung sowie der Nutzung von virtuellen Patienten und stellt den aktuellen Entwicklungsstand, unter Berücksichtigung der relevanten Literatur der letzten 15 Jahre und der langjährigen Erfahrung der Autoren dar.

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The role of intellectual property in creating, sharing and repurposing virtual patients

Cited by 5 publications

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A qualitative analysis of virtual patient descriptions in healthcare education based on a systematic literature review

A qualitative analysis of virtual patient descriptions in healthcare education based on a systematic literature review

Language, culture and international exchange of virtual patients

The Virtual Patient for Education and Training: A Critical Review of the Literature

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