Plan and budget for the ISP-VL project 2001-06-30 – 2001-12-31

For the fourth half-year of the ISP-VL project the following goals are set:

a) To develop one more English Elisabeth case (Tuberculosis)

b) To revise and fine-tune the two existing Elisabeth cases (Endocarditis and HIV/PCP)

c) To create and test two to three of the Stanford cases Tom.

d) To perform a number of course implementations of the Elisabeth and Tom cases

e) To evaluate the implementations of the courses and link those findings to the pilot course findings

f) To prepare the final course implementations in spring 2002

g) To prepare the final ISP-VL project report to WGLN

These goals will be described in more detail in the following:

Two special interactive patient case systems, Elisabeth and Tom, have been designed and initially developed for use in the project. These cases consists of six “subcases” with different diagnoses and have been constructed in cooperation with two participating physicians at the Huddinge hospital and faculty persons at Stanford University.

A number of these subcases will be developed and implemented in a number of course settings during the fall of 2001. The following cases will be developed and initially tested: Tom Case 1-Pneumoccal Pneumonia, Tom Case 5-Plasmodium vivax malaria, Elisabeth Case 5-Endocarditis and Elisabeth Case 4-Acute Tuberculosis

The following course implementation is planned during fall 2001:

1. Technical global test between UU and SU (November) using Elisabeth Case 5 –Endocarditis (and possibly others) in the Infectious Diseases clerkship or Internal Medicine clerkship.

2. Implementation of Tom case 1 - Pneumonia (and possibly others) at KI, UU and

SU as distributed sessions. Try for 14 students at each site 7 pairs voluntary

Since the global course basis for the ISP-VL project is limited, due to the differences in curricula at Stanford, KI and UU, the project will continue to Spring 2002, when the final course implementation will be held. This change in timing of the project has been approved by the SweLL executive committee.

Furthermore, the evaluation and development infrastructure of the ISP-VL project will be enhanced by the introduction of regularly (weekly) developer meetings via the Polycom video conference technique and by setting up a final evaluation link to the ISP-VL website.

The evaluation team of SweLL will be closely working together with the ISP-VL project team to ensure that both the courses and the cases will be of high standards.

Finally, since the new WGLN project VASE (which includes two different implementations and further developments of the ISP system) has been approved, the ISP-VL project team will work closely with the VASE team to ensure even better results and assessments of technical and leducational outcomes. The two VASE subprojects are:

· Use of three different techniques to simulate medical patient history learning, to evaluate the possibility to activate, motivate and emotionally attach students to simulated learning systems.

Led by Uli Plank, L3S/Braunschweig and Rolf Bergin, SweLL/KI

· Assessing the generalizability and resource need of creating subject independent simulation systems for learning. This will be performed by means of creating archeological simulated excavation (ASE) based upon the existing medical ISP architecture

Led by Frands Herschend, SweLL/UU and Uno Fors, SweLL/KI