Solutions
To solve the HMW problem, we designed a game-based virtual patient platform that offers an immersive and realistic environment in which trainees demonstrate their management of a given clinical scenario.
The platform including preoperative evaluations and treatments, intraoperative decision-making, and postoperative management.
Preoperative Evaluations & Treatments
The patient scenario begins in a preoperative clinical setting, either inpatient or outpatient, where users initiate workup of the patient. A life-like patient is depicted on the left side. The patient's vital signs appear in the central upper area and reflect the clinical status of the patient. The patient chart is located on the right side of the screen.
Physical exam
Users can hover over and click on regions of the body to elicit physical exam findings. Then, the findings will appear under the physical exam section of the patient's chart.
Order tests and treatments
The action button to look up or treat the patient are located on this computer monitor in the middle of the screen. Users can order labs or imaging studies. The status of the order can be tracked on the in-progress screen. Results can be accessed via the corresponding tabs in the patient chart.
Make Disposition
Once users are satisfied with a workup and confident of the diagnosis, they can make a disposition for the patient.
Disposition options are different for inpatient and outpatient, include: non-operative management, discharge home, consent to the operating room, admit to ward room, ICU, etc.
Intraoperative Decision-making
If users make a disposition to Operation, the system will transport them to a highly simulated environment of the operating room.
Users will answer a series of multiple-choice surgical decision-making questions.
The preoperative evaluation is the helpful information in this part.
Postoperative Management
Some patient cases require postoperative management, which is presented on a separate page with a corresponding environment to help trainees better access the patient’s condition. Users will answer the corresponding complications management questions in this part.
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