Authoring Virtual Patients – Content Creation on Mobile Devices Luke Woodham, Sheetal Kavia, Terry Poulton St George’s, University of London

To change the existing PBL curriculum, to create a more interactive, personalised model of course delivery with virtual patients at its core To be delivered in the Transitional year between campus-based learning and clinical attachments, as Clinical PBL Based on 18 adaptive and enriched interactive cases, with 36 formative assessments, integrated with social software/wikis for notes/reflections Generation 4

Optional formative self-assessment VPs, delivered on the web Related to the topic of the week, delivered at the end of each week Why? – Students concentrate on the PBL case of the week and not the broader learning objectives – More exposure to a greater range of patient conditions The challenge: Poor take up of the self-assessment cases Assessment Cases

SGUL Mobile Learning Survey Designed to poll and understand student use of mobile devices What platforms/devices do they use? What features/functionalities do they use? Has been conducted annually since January 2010

MedAssess/MedEdCases MedAssess – Distributed internally for SGUL students from September 2011 – Staggered release of cases based around curriculum MedEdCases – Publicly available on Apple app store – Currently includes 39 cases Initially available for iOS devices. Android version made available September 2012 Cases can be downloaded and played offline – no need for a permanent network connection All cases still available on the web so students without devices are not disadvantaged

Feedback 6 Feedback gathered using an on-line survey Overall summary 97 students downloaded the app. Based on mobile survey, 320 students have iOS devices. Overall the app was scored 8/10 88% rated the app easy/very easy to use and none found it difficult/very difficult. 82% agreed the content of the app was useful Was rated 4.2/5 for usefulness on average

Feedback

Creating VPs on Mobile Devices Currently all cases in the system are imported from other authoring systems using MVP standard – Time-consuming in terms of quality control and need to check each case Wanted to be able to author straight to MedEdCases – Benefit from the advantages and intuitive user experiences offered by mobile, multitouch devices