부산대학교 도서관

The purpose of this study is to find out a number of necessary items for assessing the virtual patients on realistic performance. A virtual patient is defined as a computer program that simulates real-life clinical scenarios for the purpose of healthcare and medical training, education. A virtual patient is being utilized as a novel way to augment traditional methods of teaching and assessing clinical interviewing skills, bioethics, basic patient communication, history taking and clinical decision-making skills. Furthermore, a virtual patient can be used to simulate medical students with various medical conditions associated with patients. However, there are a few studies that have reported the instrument for assessing virtual patient. For this reason, this study will investigate the factors assessing virtual patient in terms of realistic performance.