Virtual Patients in Pharmacy Education

Overview

Journal Am J Pharm Educ

Specialty Medical Education

Date 2012 Jul 5

PMID 22761533

Citations 34

Authors

Monique O Jabbur-Lopes

Alessandra R Mesquita

Leila M A Silva

Abilio de Almeida Neto

Divaldo P Lyra Jr

Affiliations

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Abstract

A review of the literature relating to the use of virtual patients in teaching pharmaceutical care to pharmacy students was conducted. Only 7 articles met the inclusion criteria for the review and 4 of the studies were conducted in North America. Few articles identified by the review used virtual patient technology that was true-to-life and/or validated.

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