RWJF Role Play Discussing Antibiotics

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is funding a series of virtual conversations between a physician and a patient which allows a participant to play the role of the physician or the patient, starting with the subject of antibiotics use. Other simulations are for a virtual home visit and “Calm Parents, Healthy Kids.” You can click and play. This could be a highly useful approach for training medical students when it can portray some of the more difficult conversations, like a patient talking to an alcoholic or drug addicted surgeon, or an ER physician diagnosing a psychopathic gunshot-wounded patient. These kinds of simulation are useful because, despite medicine’s technological wonders, the physician-patient relationship is the crucial, lagging link for making healthcare more astute. MORE

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