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. 2020 Nov 3;37(7):Doc92.
doi: 10.3205/zma001385. eCollection 2020.

Adaptation of an international virtual patient collection to the COVID-19 pandemic

Inga Hege  1   2 , Malgorzata Sudacka  3 , Andrzej A Kononowicz  4 , Julia Nonnenmann  5 , Julia Banholzer  5 , Jörg Schelling  5 , Martin Adler  6 , Bernarda Espinoza  7 , Marie Astrid Garrido  7 , Katja Radon  7   8
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Adaptation of an international virtual patient collection to the COVID-19 pandemic

Inga Hege et al. GMS J Med Educ. .

Abstract
in English, German

The COVID-19 pandemic posed new global challenges for teaching. We met these challenges as an international collaboration by adapting a collection of virtual patients for clinical reasoning training to this novel context.

Die COVID-19-Pandemie stellt den Unterricht vor neue globale Herausforderungen. Wir haben uns diesen Herausforderungen in internationaler Zusammenarbeit gestellt, indem wir eine Sammlung virtueller Patient*innen für das Üben von klinischem Entscheiden (clinical reasoning) an diesen neuen Kontext angepasst haben.

Keywords: COVID-19; clinical reasoning; internationalization; virtual patients.

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Conflict of interest statement

Martin Adler is CEO of the Instruct gGmbH which develops the virtual patient system CASUS. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Increase in number of sessions/month for the publicly open clinical reasoning VP courses in German, English, Polish, and Spanish since April 2019.
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