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12 Tips: Guidelines for authoring virtual patient cases.
Nancy Posel1, David Fleiszer, Bruce M Shore
1McGill University, Canada. nancy.posel@mcgill.ca
This guide offers 12 tips for medical educators to simplify virtual patient case development. These evidence-based guidelines aim to reduce authoring challenges and enhance medical education informatics.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education Informatics
- Digital Learning Technologies
Background:
- Virtual patient cases are a valuable tool in medical education.
- Developing these cases can be challenging for educators.
- Existing authoring processes may lead to uncertainty and hesitation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To provide practical guidelines for creating virtual patient cases.
- To support medical educators in developing effective digital learning scenarios.
- This paper presents 12 specific tips for virtual patient case development.
Main Methods:
- Guidelines are research-based and theory-grounded.
- Pedagogical principles and cognitive theories inform the methods.
- Current technology and authoring tools are considered.
Main Results:
- The 12 tips offer a structured approach to case authoring.
- Facilitates the creation of multidimensional teaching situations.
- Aims to streamline the virtual patient case development process.
Conclusions:
- Virtual patient cases are an innovative resource for medical training.
- The provided guidelines assist educators in case development.
- Enhances the utility of virtual patients in medical education informatics.

