The Educational Concept

Improve clinical reasoning & decision making skills

Let your students practice freely with the InSimu Patient app. Ask them to create a case-report presentation from one patient of the choice of the student and send it to tutor (in a slideshow or written document format).

Encourage
collaborative
learning

Present a case in an online seminar and solve the case together with your student group step by step. Let them think and work together on working out the next steps and the final correct diagnosis.

Help students
cope with
time pressure

When creating an InSimu course, you can set the time-limit for solving a certain number of cases.

Objective and standardized assessment

Assign your selected virtual patients as diagnostic challenges for homework or exam for all your students. Assess the diagnostic performance objectively of hundreds of your students’ by the click of a button.

Make your
debriefing sessions
data-driven

Continuously measure the pulse of your teaching throughout the year by gaining individual and group analytics of your students studying with the InSimu app.

Provide students with a personalized learning experience

Based on the analytics, customize the assignments to the specific needs of one single student or student group.

2. Assign virtual patients and ask further analysis

Create your own course of virtual patients and assign it to your group (e.g. five patients per week).
Ask them to elaborate 1 case in a more detailed way focusing on the differential diagnostic aspects, treatment plans, sources of evidence.

Tip: define 3 days as course length, so your students will have time to prepare the detailed report in the rest of the week. The students do not see the final feedback on their diagnosis until the end of the course.

Skills: presentation skills, use of academic resources, differential diagnostics, analytical skills

4. Elaborating on the structure of the examination reports

Assign it as homework to study the official report structures of diagnostic tests that are relevant for the course (e.g., the structure of an MRI report, necessary information, and details in a test report.). 

Skills: technical skills, protocols

5. Incorporate InSimu virtual patients in OSCE

EACH student chooses one patient from the InSimu app. They learn the details and symptoms of the patient.

The student plays the role of their selected patient, while others take the medical history and ask about the results of further testing via an online meeting.

Skills: communication skills, history taking