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Virtual Patient Simulations in Health Professions Education: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the Digital Health Education Collaboration

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Low to modest and mixed evidence suggests that when compared with traditional education, virtual patients can more effectively improve skills, and at least as effectively improve knowledge.
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Background: Virtual patients are interactive digital simulations of clinical scenarios for the purpose of health professions education. There is no current collated evidence on the effectiveness of ...

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Blended Learning Compared to Traditional Learning in Medical Education: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

TL;DR: It is shown that blended learning demonstrated consistently better effects on knowledge outcomes when compared with traditional learning in health education, and the utility of different design variants of blended learning is explored.
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Virtual Telesimulation for Medical Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

TL;DR: A novel medical student curriculum converting high-fidelity, mannequin-based simulation into a fully online virtual telesimulation format is developed, retaining the experiential strengths of simulation-based learning while complying with needs for social distancing during the pandemic.
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The need for longitudinal clinical reasoning teaching and assessment: Results of an international survey.

TL;DR: Global respondents indicate the need to implement explicit longitudinal clinical reasoning curricula, and suggest that efforts should be put into improving faculty development, including evidence-based materials on how to teach and assess clinical reasoning.
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Application of digital education in undergraduate nursing and medical interns during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review

TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic review informed by PRISMA guidelines was conducted to systematically synthesize the available literature on the application of digital education in undergraduate nursing and medical interns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Digital health professions education on chronic wound management: A systematic review.

TL;DR: Digital education on chronic wound management appears to be less effective than blended education and more effective than no intervention in improving knowledge among nurses and nursing students.
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Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

TL;DR: The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is the official document that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions.
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A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Overview

TL;DR: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy: An Overview is presented in this paper, with a focus on the application of theory into practice in the context of taxonomies in the real world.
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