1. September 2006 eViP www.virtualpatients.eu By Chara Balasubramaniam on behalf of the eViP team St George’s University of London The story so far Introduction to Virtual Patients eViP Background Project outputs Programme outcomes

2. eViP September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu What is an Electronic Virtual Patient? “an interactive computer simulation of real-life clinical scenarios for the purpose of medical training, education, or assessment” Clinical reasoning Learn from mistakes Expensive and time consuming to produce Repurpose and enrich existing VPs as an effective way to share

3. eViP September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu electronic Virtual Patients To create a shared online bank of virtual patients, adapted for multicultural and multilingual use, for the improved quality and efficiency of medical and healthcare education across the EU 3-Year Programme involving 6 separate projects 8 European partner institutions and other collaborators Co-funded by the European Commission

4. eViP September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu eViP Partners and Collaborators Partners: St George’s, University of London, UK Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany University of Warwick, UK Faculty of Medicine at Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University, Germany University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca, Romania Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland Collaborators: MedBiquitous Creative Commons Northern Ontario School of Medicine IVIMEDS

5. eViP September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu The eViP Programme and Projects The programme is achieved by the following projects: 1.Pilot case study and evaluation (SGUL) 2.Standards implementation (KI) 3.VP repurposing and enrichment (KI) 4.Awareness and dissemination (WAR) 5.Assessment and evaluation (UM) 6.Exit and sustainability (LMU) Programme and project management So, what’s happened in the first 8 months of the Programme? Months 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Project 1 Months 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Project 2 Months 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Project 3 Months 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Project 4 Months 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Project 5 Months 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 Project 6 Months 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536 PGM & PM

6. A total of 19 VPs were repurposed and enriched Repurposing workflows outlining best practice were created Evaluation of pilot VPs by students, teaching staff, and VP creators were conducted, analysed and documented eViP Repurposing to different cultures, for multilingual use, to different educational levels, to different educational scenarios, for different subject-disciplines and to different VP structures September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu Project 1 outputs (pilot study)

7. eViP An eViP application profile published Partners are making advances with their systems First draft of the eViP commons created Creative Commons Learn collaboration has started September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu Project 2 outputs (standards implementation)

8. eViP Detailed VP content inventory of all partner VPs created Partners started repurposing and enriching existing VPs Referatory requirements currently being gathered September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu Project 3 outputs (repurposing & enrichment)

9. eViP 8 case studies created for use of VPs eViP website, including blog and internal wiki, is now live: www.virtualpatients.eu www.virtualpatients.eu Published newsletters, articles, and web snippets MedBiq Europe established September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu Project 4 outputs (awareness & dissemination)

10. eViP September 2006 www.virtualpatients.eu Project 5 outputs (assessment & evaluation) Inventory of VP designs and scenarios created and published Articles submitted and published (national and international) Assessment and evaluation tools available

11. September 2006 eViP Referatory of 320+ collective VPs for multilingual, multicultural access, and integrated into curricula Tried and tested standards Sustainable network of faculties for the development and exchange of VPs Common content licensing model Major resource for medical and healthcare education to be shared by all institutions across Europe eViP Programme Outcomes

12. September 2006 Thanks from the eViP team chara@sgul.ac.uk