The iCoViP partners from the University of Augsburg together with the Bukovinian State Medical School in Chernivtsi and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv successfully applied for a grant provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). One of the aims of this project is to adapt and use the iCoViP virtual patients for the… Continue reading New project with partners from Ukraine
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iCoViP at AMEE
Our team has submitted abstracts for the annual conference of the Association of medical Education in Europe (AMEE). The AMEE conference is one of most important and largest conference on healthcare education and takes place as an hybrid event in Lyon, France from August 27th-30th. ICoViP partners from Poland, Germany, and Portugal presented our work… Continue reading iCoViP at AMEE
National flavor of virtual patients – beer gardens, names that are difficult to pronounce and unknown dishes
by Małgorzata Sudacka and Anja Mayer “Medicine is an art.” Even if you know this saying, you do not necessarily think of it this way. Because should it mean that we, as health professionals, are artists? The more years of experience in practicing medicine I have, the more true it is for me and the… Continue reading National flavor of virtual patients – beer gardens, names that are difficult to pronounce and unknown dishes
Talking about reviewing…
Today we would like to share an interview with a content reviewer for iCoViP virtual patients, that was conducted by our parter at Jagiellonian University! Who is talking: Interviewer: Małgorzata Sudacka, MD, pediatric resident, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland Interviewee: Stanisław Górski, MD, PhD, research and teaching assistant at the Center of Innovative Education JUMC… Continue reading Talking about reviewing…
Article about our blueprint development
Our project consortium under the leadership of Anja Mayer and Luc Morin managed to publish a scientific article about the complex process of developing the blueprint for the virtual patient collection. The article describes the process and its outcomes in detail. Thus, we believe it can help educators and curriculum designers to plan their own… Continue reading Article about our blueprint development
Piloting the virtual patients
As the summer terms start across medical schools in Europe, we also kick-off the pilot testing of selected virtual patients (VPs). At the moment, we are focusing on collecting data within our partner institutions, but pilot testing will be extended to medical schools of our associate partners and other stakeholders. For the evaluation of our… Continue reading Piloting the virtual patients
Integrating virtual patients in pediatrics
by Małgorzata Sudacka, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University This year, recently, I had the pleasure to examine several students from the School of Medicine in English who were supposed to take the oral part of their final exam from Pediatrics. It was a stressful task for me because I am not a very experienced clinician, so… Continue reading Integrating virtual patients in pediatrics
Kick-off of the Integration Guideline Development
by Joanna Fąferek, Jagiellonian University Medical College In January 2022 we have started the implementation of the Intellectual Output (IO) 3 – creation of a Virtual Patients (VP) Integration guidelines for educators and curriculum developers. The coordinating partner for this IO is Jagiellonian University Medical College (JUMC). In our first team meeting in 2022, JUMC… Continue reading Kick-off of the Integration Guideline Development
Translation and creation of virtual patients
A large work of the iCoViP consortium will be on the creation and translation of virtual patients (VPs). For that purpose each partner has now successfully recruited clinicians and medical students to work on these virtual patients. After an initial workshop on important didactical aspects of VPs, that are specially designed for the training of… Continue reading Translation and creation of virtual patients
Transnational Project Meeting in Paris
Thanks to the team from the University of Paris-Saclay we were able to organize a transnational project meeting in Paris on October 19th 2021 as a hybride event. Unfortunately, partners from the University of Zaragoza were only able to attend virtually due to the ongoing Corona restrictions. To better get to know each other, we… Continue reading Transnational Project Meeting in Paris