Virtual Patients Group - Improving
communication skills education using virtual patients.
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Overview The Virtual Patients Group is
comprised of over 32 researchers, including computer scientists, medical
doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, and educators. The Virtual Patients Group is developing
experiences with virtual humans to provide healthcare students,
professionals, and the general public with communication skills
education. We are integrating these
experiences into medical school curricula and public health exhibits. To date, over 500 health care students have
interacted with our immersive virtual patients, 1000 with our online virtual
patients, and hundreds with our public exhibits. We are interested in expanding our
consortium. Please contact us for more
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Virtual Patients Group Consortium
Universities |
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University
of Florida |
Medical
College of Georgia |
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University
of Georgia |
University
of Central Florida |
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Virtual
Patients Introduction Video
PublicationsWeb-pages: http://www.virtualpatientsgroup.com,
http://www.virtualpeoplefactory.com
Wiki (http://vpf.cise.ufl.edu/wiki), Forum (http://vpf.cise.ufl.edu/forum/)
Video: http://verg.cise.ufl.edu/vp/video/vp_video.wmv
Chat with a virtual patient: http://vpf.cise.ufl.edu/VirtualPeopleFactory/publicOverview.php?u=Site515&script_id=76
Video chat with a virtual patient: http://vpf.cise.ufl.edu/VirtualPeopleFactory/webcam/webcam.html
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This
work is currently supported by: |
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Prior
support includes: |
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National Science Foundation |
National Institutes of Health |
University of Florida |
Medical College of Georgia |
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Association
of Surgical Education |
Keele University |
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For
more information, please contact: Benjamin Lok, Ph.D. 
and
D. Scott Lind, M.D., 
Last Updated:
July 2, 2009.