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The role of virtual patients in medical education: a review of the literature

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The role of virtual patients in medical education: a review of the literature

Stephanie Kean
31 August 2017

Virtual Patients (VP) have been widely adopted within the training and development of healthcare professionals (Cenden et al, 2012). Adopting a case-based learning methodology allows the reader to follow a patient journey, whilst critically analysing the patient’s case (Cook et al, 2009).

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