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Published 
10/29/2008
Title: Testing Cranial and Spinal Nerve Functional Integrity and Deficits

Resource Type: Virtual Patient

Primary Author: Frank Reilly, PhD

Institution: West Virginia University School of Medicine
Description: Virtual patients were developed to evaluate diagnostic skills among first-year medical students regarding the peripheral nervous system component of the physical exam (OSCE). The objective for creating the courseware was to stimulate self-directed and problem-based learning. The rationale was to integrate related disciplines into a structured format that is readily accessible for local and distance learning and learner self-assessment. The courseware is user friendly and achieves a dimension tha ....
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Published 
10/29/2008
Title: Look At What's Wrong With Me!

Resource Type: Virtual Patient

Primary Author: Derrick Hamaoka

Institution: Uniformed Services U of the Health Sci F Edward Hebert SOM
Description: This flash-based presentation presents a simulated case of an outpatient who presents with body image issues. The case takes the participant through the initial history, mental status examination, differential diagnosis, and discussion of the case. The case contains web-based feedback questions; ongoing results are stored and participants can see how their responses compared to colleagues. (Participants must have Flash Player 8 or higher to view.)
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Published 
10/29/2008
Title: Extraocular Skeletal Muscle-Induced Eye Movements

Resource Type: Tutorial

Primary Author: Frank Reilly, PhD

Institution: West Virginia University School of Medicine
Description: An interactive computer-based tutorial was developed to simulate eye movements provoked by the contraction of individual and synergistic extraocular skeletal muscles. The objective for creating the courseware was to stimulate self-directed and problem-based local and distance learning. The courseware is user friendly and achieves a dimension that cannot be attained by using conventional textbooks. It complements didactic and practical (dissection) activities of beginner health professional stude ....
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Published 
10/01/2008
Title: Project LIVE: Phil Collins, a 62 Year-old Caucasian Male with Psychiatric Illness

Resource Type: Virtual Patient

Primary Author: Joshua Jacobs

Institution: University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Description: Phil Collins, a 62 year-old Caucasian male presents to the physician's office complaining of severe right foot (heal) pain. It was discovered that the patient was homeless with psychiatric illness which include Schizophrenia, Paranoia, also Poor Memory and Severe Cellulitis.
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Published 
08/14/2008
Title: Project LIVE: Mrs. Hernandez, a 56 Year-Old Woman with Left-Sided Chest Pain, Shortness of Breath, And Cough

Resource Type: Virtual Patient

Primary Author: Carol Hodgson, PhD

Institution: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Description: Mrs. Hernandez is a 56 year-old previously healthy woman who initially shows up at an urgent care clinic in Fresno with left-sided chest pain, shortness of breath, and cough. Although students may come to see this as a relatively straightforward case of lung cancer since the case comes during the CBB Block, the real patient in this case was misdiagnosed for more than a year before a lung biopsy from a thoracoscopy revealed that the patient had an adenocarcinoma of her left lingula.

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