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Dungeons & Dragons Taught Me How to Make Better VPs. Randomizing Physiological Data to Rapidly Produce 97 Clinically Realistic VPs. Mike Paget, Janet Tworek, Kevin McLaughlin, Bruce Wright University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Overview. Requirements.
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Dungeons & Dragons Taught Me How to Make Better VPs Randomizing Physiological Data to Rapidly Produce 97 Clinically Realistic VPs Mike Paget, Janet Tworek, Kevin McLaughlin, Bruce Wright University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Requirements 1. Create 97 VPs for full year course • Clerkship (Year 3) students • Little SME time • Past experience with templates • Time consuming • Overlooked data • No preexisting cases for UofCcontext
Requirements 2. Clinically accurate values and variety in VP • Names • History • Laboratory • Physical Exam
Solution - Gaming Dungeons and Dragons
Solution - Gaming Dungeon Master’s Guide • Randomized realism • Qualities related to numbers
Solution - Gaming Dungeon Master’s Guide • Randomized realism • Qualities related to numbers • Virtual Patients • Assign text strings to numbers • Treat numeric data as numbers that fall within a pre-specified range.
1a. Create Template for VPs • HxExIxDxRx model of VPs • Set questions
3a. Create report by linking randomized ID values to text fields in appropriate tables
5. Upload content to OLab • SME time
Multiple cases at once • Insert picture of multiple cases
Results • Time: • 20 mins per VP • 45 mins per side-by-side VPs (2) • Salient negatives, positives/normals • Side-by-side • Contextual cues & patterns by presentation or diagnosis • Complexity of medicine
Conclusions • Education as driver • Realistic VPs = data issue • Leverage gaming, dB experience • Existing software + open source VP software • Multiple clinically accurate VPs • Appropriate personnel use • Complexity of Medicine • Sharing
Conclusions • Gaming “nerd” = VP programming superhero
Thank You Janet Tworek jktworek@ucalgary.ca