3D Virtual Simulation Helps Medical Students Diagnose, Treat Patients

Wolters Kluwer Health is collaborating with Take the Wind, the company behind digital simulation platform Body Interact, to help expand virtual training tools and resources for medical and physician assistant students. The offering allows students to interact with virtual patients in life-like scenarios, where they are encouraged to assess, order tests, and diagnose in a safe environment.
 
Advancing the Classroom Experience Through Technology
With this partnership, Wolters Kluwer takes the gold-standard of clinical skills training, Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking, to the next level for medical students, allowing them to practice clinical reasoning within real-world, timed patient scenarios that provide instantaneous feedback. Augmenting the learning from evidence-based Bates’ suite of offerings with simulation allows for higher-order learning and digital transformation for those training to become medical doctors, osteopathic physicians, physician assistants, occupational and physical therapists, and pharmacists. Both products are easily integrated into the curriculum to provide assessable and assignable clinical skills and reasoning solutions that enhance lab experiences to prepare students for real patient encounters.
 
“The Bates family of products are the leading global guides for techniques on successful physical examinations and have long been a key resource for medical students looking to improve their skills and understand the appropriate ways to interact at the point of care. Students now have the ability to get complete, authoritative guidance in a safe-to-fail environment that builds the skills necessary to care for real patients,” said Vikram Savkar, senior vice president and general manager, Medicine Segment, Health Learning, Research & Practice, at Wolters Kluwer.
 
Evidence-Based Material for the Next Generation of Care Teams
Together, Wolters Kluwer and Body Interact include a range of different patient types to meet students’ learning needs. With hundreds of expert-reviewed clinical scenarios in multiple languages in Body Interact, students across the healthcare spectrum will be better prepared for clinical encounters with their first patients.
 
“We are thrilled that Take the Wind and Wolters Kluwer are coordinating to bring forth a group of learning tools that can assess clinical reasoning, and provide feedback to faculty on student performance, allowing for debriefing and teaching moments. By accelerating critical thinking and decision-making processes through customized clinical scenarios and fostering an experience with varying options for how individuals learn, a variety of healthcare students will be better prepared for when they begin seeing patients,” Take the Wind CEO Pedro Pinto stated.
 
Take The Wind is a specialist technology leader in the virtual medical simulation market, serving medical, nursing, community colleges and high schools, scientific societies, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies globally. The Coimbra, Portugal, based company operates primarily under the Body Interact brand that simulates real world scenarios via thousands of clinical cases, dynamically integrating multiple internal and external drivers of patients’ health conditions. The product is available in eight languages and currently serves more than 220,000 users in over 50 countries.
 
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