title: Criteria to assess the quality of virtual patients.
abstract: Quality assessment of virtual patients (VP) is important but still insufficiently standardized. We developed categories and criteria to assess the quality of virtual patients. These categories reflect the life cycle of a VP from the planning to the development, implementation and evaluation. Such elaborated criteria will help authors to create VPs and curriculum planners to assess the quality of implemented VPs and choose high quality VPs from repositories.
authors.affiliation: Department for Medical Education, LMU Munich, Germany. inga.hege@casus.net
authors.forename: Inga
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hege
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zary
authors.forename: Andrzej A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kononowicz
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000592:standards*; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000592:standards*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000592:standards; D016544:Patient Simulation; D014584:User-Computer Interface