Nabil Zary, Uno G.H. Fors
Abstract
Computer based patient case simulation systems have during the recent years been introduced in medical education to allow students to `meet" more cases that are educationally optimized and adapted to the actual learning situation. However, three major problems exist with most computer based case simulation systems today: They are expensive to develop, experienced multimedia developers are needed for the development and teachers/clinicians can not develop and adjust cases to fit their own specific educational needs
The WASP project (Web-Activated Simulation of Patients) tries to solve these three problems, and still allow very realistic and highly-interactive simulations of clinical cases, delivered and edited via the Web. WASP is based on experience from a number of national and international visualization and simulation projects.
Most important case simulation features are available, including:
- interactive history taking , complete physical examination (inspection, auscultation, palpation, percussion, vitals, neurological exams etc.), complete lab section including chemical labs, X-ray, MRI, ultrasound, CT, phys lab, pharmacology lab, pathology lab etc.), diagnosis and differentials, therapy , interactive session feedback and integrated references and online database sources
More info available at: http://wasp.lime.ki.se and http://patientcases.org