Serious Games: The Virtual Patient specification
The Virtual Patient – a common standard for medical simulations
From Transforming Professional Healthcare Narratives into Structured Game-Informed-Learning Activities by Begg, et.al.
The Virtual Patient specification was developed to take advantage of the natural affinity for the branching narrative style of much of medical education. The Virtual Patient is a common standard by which patient cases can be structured in a manner that can be read by many game and simulation systems.
A virtual patient represents whichever characteristics of the patient are relevant to the current educational context.
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