NDLI: Virtual patients for assessment of medical student ability to integrate clinical and laboratory data to develop differential diagnoses: comparison of results of exams with/without time constraints.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Gunning, William T. Fors, Uno G. H.
Spatial Coverage	Ohio
Description	Country affiliation: United States Author Affiliation: Gunning WT ( University of Toledo, USA.)
Abstract	INTRODUCTION: We have evaluated medical student ability in a problem-based learning course using a virtual patient (VP)-based exam with variable parameters for assessment purposes. METHODS: A class of 155 second year medical students was assessed using a VP exam with unlimited access during a 1-week period; 2 years later, the identical exam was administered to 175 students with a 3-h time limit. RESULTS: Students taking the exam without time constraints utilized approximately twice as much time than students with the time limit. Without the pressure of a time-limit, students utilized half as many inquiries of the patient history, physical, and lab/imaging tests than were used by students having a time constraint, indicating that the time limited students used a 'shotgun approach' to try to collect as many 'required' inquiries as possible. Most students (91%) taking the untimed exam were able to correctly diagnose the exam case but only 31% of the time limited students correctly diagnosed the VP exam case, despite their higher number of inquiries. CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrate that an identical VP exam, administered with variables to compare untimed versus time-limited conditions, resulted in an unraveling of student's ability to integrate the data discovered during the process of progressive disclosure.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	0142159X
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	34
e-ISSN	1466187X
Journal	Medical Teacher
Language	English
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Publisher Date	2012-01-01
Publisher Place	Great Britain (UK)
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Decision Making Clinical Competence Diagnosis, Differential Humans Discipline Medical Education Journal Article Problem-based Learning Time Factors Computer Simulation Education, Medical, Undergraduate Educational Measurement Ohio Retrospective Studies Methods
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Medicine

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