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: 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: 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. […]
Virtual Patients: Ergnomics Case IX – Mistake
In this virtual patient lesson, the situation of a pilot of an international airline stands central. In the aviation industry, which is a high reliability organization, themes like human error, crew resource- and risk management are important. During this lesson, the pilot is flying from Zurich to Johannesburg. Of course, the pilot and his crew […]