Immersive Virtual Patients with Abnormal Clinical Conditions for Medical Student

描述（由申请人提供）： 这项工作提出了通过使用沉浸式虚拟患者（VP）暴露并向医学生提供异常临床状况的反馈。沉浸式虚拟人物是高度互动的，计算机生成的，真人大小的虚拟3D角色。由于医学教育者难以为学生提供足够的异常临床状况的经验，因此难以计划使用具有异常发现的患者对学生进行测试。副总裁可以填补这一关键的教育需要互动曝光。其目的是使用VP系统为学生提供涉及异常临床结果的交互和反馈。 VP的动态属性在呈现异常状况方面提供了显著的益处。我们的目标是建立使用VP作为一个强大的除了SP和物理模拟器在医学教育课程。 目标#1 -开发一套概念验证的视力模糊的虚拟患者，让医学生接触到异常的发现。我们建议创建一组三个虚拟患者的视力模糊的经验。视力模糊将由以下原因之一引起：1）一条颅神经损伤，2）糖尿病视网膜疾病，或3）颅骨肿块（脑肿瘤）。所有条件开始与类似的开始面试。但随着面试的进行，学生需要仔细的视觉观察和互动考试。视力模糊很难用标准化的患者重现，并且没有现有的人体模型或物理模拟器。 目标#2 -开发一个能够向医学生提供关于异常发现知识的反馈的系统。该系统将评估学生与视力模糊的虚拟患者的交互。然后，系统将向学生提供关于他们进行患者-医生交互的反馈。反馈将集中在访谈，眼科检查，观察关键症状和鉴别诊断。 目标#3 -试点测试异常结果虚拟患者纳入教育课程。我们建议将由此产生的系统纳入医学教育课程。在佛罗里达大学，三年级的医学生在他们的外科轮转中将接触到视力模糊的虚拟病人。在讲座中介绍了视力模糊的情况后，学生们将体验一个虚拟的病人，他会出现三种视力模糊的情况之一。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This work proposes to expose and provide feedback to medical students on abnormal clinical conditions through the use of immersive virtual patients (VPs). Immersive VPs are highly interactive, computer-generated, life-size virtual 3D characters. As medical educators have difficulty in providing students with sufficient experiences with abnormal clinical conditions, testing students using patients with abnormal findings has been difficult to plan. VPs can fill this critical education need for interactive exposure. The aim is to use a VP system to provide students with interactions and feedback in scenarios involving abnormal clinical findings. The dynamic attribute of VPs provides significant benefits in presenting abnormal conditions. The goal is to establish the use of VPs as a powerful addition to SPs and physical simulators in the medical education curriculum. Aim #1 - Develop a proof-of-concept set of virtual patients with blurred vision to expose medical students to abnormal findings. We propose creating a set of three experiences of a virtual patient with blurred vision. The blurred vision will be caused by one of the following: 1) An injury to one of the cranial nerves, 2) diabetic retinal disease, or 3) cranial mass (brain tumor). All conditions begin with a similar starting interview. But as the interview progresses, the student needs to employ careful visual observation and interactive exams. Blurred vision is difficult to reproduce with standardized patients and has no existing mannequin or physical simulators. Aim #2 - Develop a system capable of providing feedback to medical students on their knowledge of abnormal findings. The system will evaluate the student's interaction with the blurred vision virtual patient. The system will then provide feedback to the student on their conduct of the patient-doctor interaction. The feedback will focus on the interview, eye-exam, observation of key symptoms, and differential diagnosis. Aim #3 - Pilot-test the integration of abnormal findings virtual patients into the education curriculum. We propose to integrate the resulting system into the medical education curriculum. At the University of Florida, 3rd year medical students in their surgical rotation will be exposed to the blurred vision virtual patient. After covering blurred vision conditions in lectures, students would experience a virtual patient presenting one of three blurred vision conditions.