Augmented Standardized Patients Now Virtually a Reality

  • Authors:
  • Frederic D. McKenzie;Hector M. Garcia;Reynel J. Castelino;Thomas W. Hubbard;John A. Ullian;Gayle A. Gliva

  • Affiliations:
  • Old Dominion University;Old Dominion University;Old Dominion University;Eastern Virginia Medical School;Eastern Virginia Medical School;Eastern Virginia Medical School

  • Venue:
  • ISMAR '04 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Standardized patients (SPs), individuals who realistically portray patients, are widely used in medical education to teach and assess communication skills, eliciting a history, performing a physical exam, and other important clinical skills. One limitation is that each SP can only portray a limited set of physical symptoms. Finding SPs with the abnormalities students need to encounter is typically not feasible. This project augments the SP by permitting the learner to hear abnormal heart and lung sounds in a normal SP.