Journal Title:  Journal of Pharmacy Teaching | Vol:  10 | Issue:  2 | Year:  2002   
Print ISSN:  1044-0054 | Online ISSN:     

The Interactive Patient: A Tool for Teaching Discriminating Data Collection in Therapeutic Problem Solving

Associate Professor David S. Roffman Pharm.D.
Associate Professor and Director Harold P. Lehmann M.D. and Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Christoph U. Lehmann M.D.

pages: 35 - 45
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Abstract:

Teaching and evaluating the process of discriminating data collection as part of the skill of therapeutic problem solving is a difficult and complex task. The Interactive Patient is a Web-based, natural language, multimedia computer-based patient simulation that was developed to provide the user the opportunity to formulate and apply data collection strategies to a clinical case presentation. Similar to the actual practitioner-patient encounter, the simulation does not limit the user to preprogrammed choices in the process of data collection. The software assigns a relative value to both the content and the order of data selection, providing the user with feedback about the effectiveness of the data collection process.