Electronic Healthcare Education System and Method

摘要

A healthcare education software, which is executed by an electronic healthcare education system, incorporates a medical content authoring software platform with a medical authoring interface, a medical training, simulation, and evaluation software platform with a virtual patient examination simulator and an interactive prediction table, and a computerized medical causal concept diagram construction and evaluation software platform with corresponding interfaces for training of medical students and other healthcare professionals. Preferably, the healthcare education software is connected to a robust medical information database that contains a wealth of physiological simulation animation files, evidence-based patient diagnostic information, and other pertinent medical information, which can be readily imported and utilized by a healthcare education content creator in creating and updating medical training contents via the medial authoring interface. The healthcare education software may be executed on a CPU and a memory unit of a computer system, a portable device, or another electronic device.

主权项

1. An electronic healthcare education system comprising:
a virtual patient examination simulator interface module, which generates and displays a patient response section with an animated virtual patient and a patient exam result section with a virtual physical exam diagnostic device on a display screen, wherein the animated virtual patient is inspected and diagnosed by a user who controls the virtual physical exam diagnostic device in the virtual patient examination simulator interface module; a medical authoring interface module, which includes graphical user interface tools that allow a healthcare education content creator to create and update a medical training content quickly and easily, without direct modification of underlying computer programming codes by the healthcare education content creator; a medical information database, which contains physiological simulation animation files, evidence-based patient diagnostic information, and other pertinent medical information that are periodically updated by one or more medical experts, wherein at least some information from the medical information database is dynamically linkable or importable to the medical training content, which is being composed by the medical authoring interface module and the healthcare education content creator; and a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory unit of a computer system or another electronic device, wherein the CPU and the memory unit execute at least one of the virtual patient examination simulator interface module, the medical authoring interface module, and the medical information database.