Making WAVES: the progress of collaborations to further the use of Virtual Patients Sheetal Kavia e-Learning Unit St George’s, University of London, UK

Virtual Patients – “An interactive computer simulation of real- life clinical scenarios for the purpose of medical training, education, or assessment.” – MedBiquitous White Paper, 2006 Virtual Patients (VP)

SGUL’s Transition from PBL to D-PBL Traditional Paper Problem-Based Learning Online Decision Problem-Based Learning D-PBL

Cost of Implementing D-PBL £200K 2 Years

WAVES Project Widening Access to Virtual Educations Scenarios

WAVES Partners St George’s, University of London, United Kingdom Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Masaryk University, Czech Republic Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Bayer, United Kingdom Instruct, Germany

Sustainability, Dissemination Project Partners Needs Analysis, Product feedback, QA Dissemination Partners Associate Partners Project Partners WAVES Partners and Network

WAVES Project Issue: Interactive virtual patients (VPs) are recognised as effective tools for developing reasoning skills, and for safe training in workplace competency. Fitting these sophisticated applications into conventional platforms is not easy, pedagogically or technically.

Waves Project Objectives: Take ‘Scenario-Based learning’ (SBL) ‘out-of-the-box’, combining skill sets of both academic and enterprise partners to make SBL more accessible -Embed SBL/VP activities directly into learning platforms and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Added pedagogic value and ease-of-use to learners through improved integration, progress monitoring, and the delivery of feedback. Emphasis on competency and experience rather than knowledge, increasing relevance to real-world skills through MOOC integration. -Training materials in multiple languages, including guidelines and MOOCs to make VP more accessible for educators.

WAVES Project The project will sustain and disseminate these activities through an extended partnership of 5+ European projects, collectively termed: The ‘WAVES’ Network!

CROESUS TAME ePBLnet- took the G4 curriculum into 6 institutions in Eurasia eViP: A bank of VPs for multi-cultural, multi-lingual use across Europe, adapted to a common standard G4- 1 st time VPs replaced core of curriculum replacing PBL with interactive VPs to allow students to take realistic patient management decisions TAME: using VPs to Train Against Medical Error CROESUS: using VPS, to simulate steps in diagnostic, therapeutic processes before exposure to patients. WAVES: takes SBL ‘out- of-the-box’, to make ‘SBL’ more accessible for a wide range of profession WAVES Ptolemy? MEDCIN mEducator Family of projects eViP Generation 4 ePBLnet eLU A Family Tree of Grants

European Commission funding for Education: Erasmus+ projects Capacity Building: ePBLnet, TAME -support the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of higher education in the Partner Countries Strategic Partnership: CROESUS, MEDCIN -focus on sharing, developing and transferring innovative practices between participating countries Knowledge Alliance: WAVES - transnational, result-driven projects, between higher education and business, 'Expert Networks

Growing the WAVES Network A network, initially developing across Europe and Asia, coordinated by St George’s University of London, focussed on Scenario Based Learning, curriculum transformation/ modernisation, and digitisation. It is supported currently by 5 EC grants, with two more due for submission next year. A core of 25+ partners, supported by an extended network of Associate Partners, drawing in more than 100 HE institutions, corporates, support organisations and charities

Thank You Sheetal Kavia