Virtual Patients: Enameller’s Breath

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, the 41 year old John works in an enterprise that is specialized in kitchen-ovens manufacture. John experiences difficulties in breathing and is very tired. Which examinations John needs to determine where his complaints come from? Do you […]

Virtual Patients: Week-end rash

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, a 47 year old man Yan has a rash on his face. He only has this on weekends and holidays. Where is it from? When Yan discovers that his colleagues are also dealing with this problem, he […]

Virtual Patients: 27 year old patient with conjunctivitis and rhinitis

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, the 27 year old nurse Susan complains of rhinitis, bronchial asthma and eczemas on her hands. Are these complaints work-related or are Susan’s allergic complaints caused by something else? Are you able to find out the cause […]

Virtual Patients: A 59 year old male with dyspnea and cough

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, a 59 year old male, Mr. Jasic, suffers from shortage of breath and cough. Do you know was causes mr. Jasic’s breathlessness? Is it caused by smoking, having pets, or because mr. Jasic has worked with hazardous […]

Virtual Patients: Internship with consequences

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, you step into the role of a medical student and you work in a large hospital on a internal medicine ward. A 42 year old man, who works as a bricklayer, comes to see you. He has […]

Virtual Patients: Occupational accident international

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, you are welcome in the Workers hospital in Santiago de Chile. You will learn how Mr. Valdez suffers from a severe occupational accident, and how he is treated. An international team of doctors consists of a head […]

Virtual Patients: Outbreak

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, you are a family doctor in Toronto, Canada. It is March 17, 2003, a regular patient, a 54-year-old woman recently lost her elderly mother (78) who had only just returned from visiting family in Hong Kong. She […]

Virtual Patients: Work accident due by alcohol

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson,  we will talk onwards about alcoholism, work and accidents. We visit the Austria House, The Clinic of Politraumatisms, Burns and Plastic Surgery, in Romania. Can you characterize “chronic classic alcoholism”, alcohol metabolism, and alcohol effects on health? […]

Virtual Patients: Patient with chronic dyspnea needs your help!

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, we are physicians working in the Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin, Poland. As farmers have difficult access to specialized health services, general practitioners (family physicians) in rural areas participate extensively in diagnostic procedures. Please, join a […]

Virtual Patients: They who search will find

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care.  You are a urologist in a group practice. A retired patient is diagnosed with bladder cancer after microhematuria was found by chance.  Tumour resection was followed by several relapses. A radical cystectomy was the next decision. A report has to […]

Virtual Patients: Incidental finding

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. A substantial part of the content of this case is bound to the German legal context of compensation for occupational diseases. You experience this case partly as being a patient. A patient with varicose enters the hospital for surgery. Routine […]

Virtual Patients: Flight attendant

Flight attendant This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. You are performing a suitable-to-fly medical examination for an air hostess already working 8 years in that job. You are expected to examine her for potential health problems while at work as a flight attendant including long-distance flights. […]