Main CHAPTER SEA Principal Investigator: Lee Yew Kong (Universiti Malaya, Malaysia)

UGM Principal Investigator: Syahirul Alim, S.Kp., MSc., PhD

UGM Member:

1. Widyawati, S.Kp., M.Kes., PhD
2. Haryani, S.Kp., M.Kes., PhD
3. Ariani Arista Putri Pertiwi, S.Kep., Ns., MAN., DNP
4. Dimas Septian Eko Wahyu Sumunar, S.Kep., Ns., M.Med.Sc., MSc.

Funding: Erasmus+ European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)

Project Aim

This project aims to build capacity to develop, adapt and implement virtual patients in 5 Southeast Asian schools in Malaysia and Indonesia in collaboration with expert virtual patient developers from two higher education institutions in Sweden and Poland

Project Summary

Virtual patients have seen an increase in demand due to the digital education shift brought about by the global pandemic. Due to restrictions on bedside patient teaching, technology-enhanced training methods to teach clinical reasoning skills to healthcare students have become a key part of teaching and training. However, resources for developing virtual patient software as well as writing patient cases are lacking in lower-middle income countries. EU partner HEIs in this project have been involved in developing an open-access library of 200 virtual patient cases under the ERASMUS+ iCoViP project and are experts in implementing digital education tools in existing medical degrees. These cases can be further adapted for use in other degrees such as nursing and pharmacy.

The project will achieve this by knowledge transfer workshops based on the iCoViP implementation guidelines for virtual patients, co-production of best-practice adaptation and implementation guides for local Malaysian and Indonesian settings that can be used across medical, nursing and pharmacy degrees, and actual implementation of virtual patients in 5 undergraduate health degrees.

Within the CHAPTER-SEA project, the specific objectives are to:

1. Conduct a needs analysis to identify the types of digital education tools and collaborative learning activities in medical education in Malaysian and Indonesian partner institutions.
2. To train Malaysian and Indonesian partners on virtual patient software and how to adapt cases for local settings
3. To train Malaysian and Indonesian partners on how to design collaborative lessons using virtual patients
4. To select and adapt virtual patient cases that align with the medical, nursing or pharmacy programs in each institution
5. To implement and evaluate the use of collaborative learning using virtual patient cases in Malaysian and Indonesian partner medical programs with 1000 undergraduate students

Collaborators:

1. Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
2. Jagiellonian University, Poland
3. Karolinska Institute, Sweden
4. UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Indonesia
5. Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Taylor’s University, Malaysia