TY - JOUR AU - Zary, Nabil AU - Johnson, Gunilla AU - Boberg, Jonas AU - Fors, Uno GH PY - 2006 DA - 2006/02/21 TI - Development, implementation and pilot evaluation of a Web-based Virtual Patient Case Simulation environment – Web-SP JO - BMC Medical Education SP - 10 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - The Web-based Simulation of Patients (Web-SP) project was initiated in order to facilitate the use of realistic and interactive virtual patients (VP) in medicine and healthcare education. Web-SP focuses on moving beyond the technology savvy teachers, when integrating simulation-based education into health sciences curricula, by making the creation and use of virtual patients easier. The project strives to provide a common generic platform for design/creation, management, evaluation and sharing of web-based virtual patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate if it was possible to develop a web-based virtual patient case simulation environment where the entire case authoring process might be handled by teachers and which would be flexible enough to be used in different healthcare disciplines. SN - 1472-6920 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-6-10 DO - 10.1186/1472-6920-6-10 ID - Zary2006 ER -