Another Dimension to Clinical Skills Education: Using Virtual Humans, Simulation, and Acting Concepts to Enhance Standardized Patient Training

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Edition: 0002-
Release: 2012-03-21
Publisher: Dreamvest, LLC
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0985381604
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Another Dimension to Clinical Skills Education pdf
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What makes a virtual human credible and acceptable? Do they provide companionship that is similar to that of a person? More so, will it ever replace that of a person? It is not the art of simply creating a digital mockup of a human, but the art of creating an intelligent conversational model that is woven into a virtual human to deliver a personality and thought process; that truly raises the previous questions. Furthermore, we cannot predict the future, but it is simulation that can provide a picture of what the future may hold. This concept of simulation allows a doctor to perform a clinical skills interaction and a surgeon to perform a difficult procedure as many times as it takes until they reach a particular defined objective of proficiency. This is a capability that real life does not, nor ever will, offer. Standardized Patients (SP)s are actors who portray a patient to provide real life training to medical students. The obstacle that is being faced is the lack of standar Download Another Dimension to Clinical Skills Education for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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