December 12, 2008
Can Virtual Patients Help Real Professors Teach Medicine?
Meet Yumi, a 24-year-old college student who has been experiencing head pain for the past several days. The sensation is not new — she has had similar episodes periodically over the last two years — but the headaches are becoming more persistent, and pain medications like Tylenol and aspirin are not working.
"The pain sometimes wakes me up from sleep at night," she says. "It is beginning to interfere with my studies."
Yumi's story may sound realistic, but
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