Train-the-Trainer Course Manual

Virtual patient design and creation for clinical reasoning using CASUS – Train-the-Trainer Course Manual

This is a train-the-trainer course manual for medical educators to learn how to design and create high-quality virtual patients on the CASUS platform to teach clinical reasoning to undergraduate medical students. The approximately-30-hour course spans several synchronous and asynchronous sessions across four weeks and contains elements of character design, storytelling, didactical and multimedia aspects, as well as technical guidance into using the CASUS platform.

Target group:

Teachers, instructors and professors interested in learning or improving their skills on how to create high-quality virtual patients in CASUS for medical students in their training years to learn and practice their clinical reasoning skills.

Author:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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Virtual patient design and creation for clinical reasoning using CASUS – Train-the-Trainer Course Manual