Enhanced Design and Functionalities for the Virtual Patient Educational Platform
Imad Alex Awada, Alexandru Sorici, Adina Magda Florea, Alexandru Scafa‐Udriște · 2023
Within a partnership between the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest and the University Politehnica of Bucharest, an educational web-based platform is being developed. The platform enables medical students to virtually reproduce the interactions that they usually have with patients in hospitals, through an avatar in clinically valid scenarios. Students can interact with virtual patients through text and speech interactions. They can access the health records of the virtual patients, perform objective exams, request and analyze medical investigations, elaborate treatment plans and provide diagnoses. They can receive feedback from a professor in real time or after the end of the session. The platform integrates various tools that professors can use to provide feedback, generate scenarios, manage the medical data on the platform and annotate the data. In the current stage of the implementation, the platform supports English and Romanian languages, it incorporates some customizable features, a user ranking system and a scoring system that evaluates and scores each session of the student and rewards the student with points. The scoring system takes into consideration the feedback provided by the professor, who may manually adjust the final score (if he/she desires).