Evaluation of Branched-Narrative Virtual Patients for Interprofessional Education of Psychiatry Residents.

Autor: Wilkening GL; University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, USA. wilkenin@uiwtx.edu., Gannon JM; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA., Ross C; Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA., Brennan JL; Marymount Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA., Fabian TJ; University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA., Marcsisin MJ; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA., Benedict NJ; University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry [Acad Psychiatry] 2017 Feb; Vol. 41 (1), pp. 71-75. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Mar 14.
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-016-0531-1
Abstrakt: Objective: This pilot study evaluated the utility of branched-narrative virtual patients in an interprofessional education series for psychiatry residents.
Methods: Third-year psychiatry residents attended four interprofessional education advanced psychopharmacology sessions that involved completion of a branched-narrative virtual patient and a debriefing session with a psychiatric pharmacist. Pre- and post-assessments analyzed resident learning and were administered around each virtual patient. Simulation 4 served as a comprehensive review. The primary outcome was differences in pre- and post-assessment scores. Secondary outcomes included resident satisfaction with the virtual patient format and psychiatric pharmacist involvement.
Results: Post-test scores for simulations 1, 2, and 3 demonstrated significant improvement (p < 0.05) from pre-test scores. Scores for simulation 4 did not retain significance. Resident satisfaction with the branched-narrative virtual patient format and psychiatric pharmacist involvement was high throughout the series (100 %; n = 18).
Conclusions: Although there are important methodological limitations to this study including a small sample size and absence of a comparator group, this pilot study supports the use of branched-narrative virtual patients in an interprofessional education series for advanced learners.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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