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Table 6 Student preferences concerning the ways of integration of VPs in the medical curriculum

From: Curricular integration of virtual patients: a unifying perspective of medical teachers and students

 

Additional learning activity

Additional tool for practice before exams

Tool for clinical skills acquisition before real clinical contact

Assessment tool

  

Yes(%)

No(%)

Yes(%)

No(%)

Yes(%)

No(%)

Yes(%)

No(%)

Male

Undergraduate

18.57

81.43

78.57

21.43

100.00

0.00

87.14

12.86

Postgraduate

64.29

35.71

46.43

53.57

60.71

39.29

42.86

57.14

PhD

57.69

42.31

57.69

42.31

53.85

46.15

61.54

38.46

Female

Undergraduate

100.00

0.00

85.71

14.29

100.00

0.00

28.57

71.43

Postgraduate

31.25

68.75

0.00

100.00

68.75

31.25

0.00

100.00

PhD

45.10

54.90

52.94

47.06

80.39

19.61

50.98

49.02

Total

Undergraduate

25.97

74.03

79.22

20.78

100.00

0.00

81.82

18.18

Postgraduate

52.27

47.73

29.55

70.45

63.64

36.36

27.27

72.73

PhD

49.35

50.65

54.55

45.45

71.43

28.57

54.55

45.45