Using Foreign Virtual Patients With Medical Students in Germany: Are Cultural Differences Evident and Do They Impede Learning?

Authors

Jens Walldorf, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Tina Jähnert, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Norman B. Berman, Dartmouth CollegeFollow
Martin R. Fischer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2016

Publication Title

JMIR - Journal of Medical Internet Research

Department

Geisel School of Medicine

Abstract

Learning with virtual patients (VPs) is considered useful in medical education for fostering clinical reasoning. As the authoring of VPs is highly demanding, an international exchange of cases might be desirable. However, cultural differences in foreign VPs might hamper learning success.

DOI

10.2196/jmir.6040

Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation

Walldorf, Jens; Jähnert, Tina; Berman, Norman B.; and Fischer, Martin R., "Using Foreign Virtual Patients With Medical Students in Germany: Are Cultural Differences Evident and Do They Impede Learning?" (2016). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2425.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2425