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The ICVP09 conference is organized under the auspices of
the
Polish Minister of Health - Ewa Kopacz.
Invitation
The significance of e-learning in academic curricula is constantly taking on. This trend is particularly noticeable in medicine, where various specialized forms of computer aided learning emerge. Among them are virtual patients - computer simulations of real-life clinical scenarios for the purpose of education in medicine, nursing or dentistry. Representing logically consistent clinical cases they offer effective means of facilitating problem-based sessions on various learning stages (pre-clinical, clinical years, CME). Virtual patients grow in importance due to the decreased time spend by patients in hospitals, time constraints of clinical teachers or difficulties in presenting rare diseases. It is very likely that one day training on virtual patients will become for medical students as natural as flight simulators are for pilots.
Aim of the conference is to promote usage of virtual patients in medical curricula. We offer a unique opportunity to discuss a wide range of topics related to creation and application of virtual patients. The conference is open for participants with considerable experience in the field of virtual patients as well as for those who just started considering including problem-based learning tools at their schools.
Experiences gained in developing virtual patients may be useful also beyond life sciences. It has already been demonstrated that virtual patient software with only little changes may be used in case-based learning e.g. in law. For that reason reports of case-based software usage in other than medical fields are welcomed as well.
All submitted papers are peer-reviewed. Conference proceeding will be published in a special issue of the Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems Journal entirely devoted to the topic of virtual patients.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Krakow.
ICVP'09 Organizing Committee