title: Interactive multimedia patient simulations in dental and continuing dental education.
abstract: Transfer of knowledge from the basic biopsychosocial sciences to patient care is a major task for dental students during their education. Computer-based interactive patient simulations can help students affect this transfer because simulations allow students to develop and practice problem solving and decision-making skills interactively within the context of patient problems. A program for authoring computer-based interactive simulations is described. Patient simulations can effectively integrate basic science relevance, preparation for clinical problem solving, teaching new clinical content and several other necessary elements into curriculum infrastructure. Case simulations also can contribute to evolving educational standards set out by accrediting bodies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry, Post Office Box 980566, Richmond, VA 23298-0566, USA. labbey@vcu.edu
authors.forename: Louis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Abbey
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003479:Curriculum; D004497:Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing / Q000379:methods; D018961:Educational Technology; D006801:Humans; D019212:Multimedia; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D016544:Patient Simulation; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012655:Self-Evaluation Programs; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface