The Emotional and Behavioral Impact of Delivering Bad News to Virtual versus Real Standardized Patients: A Pilot Study.

Sarah R O'Rourke¹, Kelly R Branford², Taylor L Brooks³, Lindsay T Ives³, Arjun Nagendran⁴, Scott N Compton^1,3

¹Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

²Clinical Skills and Standardized Patient Program, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

³Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.

⁴Mursion, Inc, San Francisco, California, USA.

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Abstract

Phenomenon: Virtual standardized patients (vSPs) are becoming increasingly common in medical education, though one limitation of vSPs is the artificiality of computer-based simulators. Past research on the use of vSPs has not clearly established whether learners have different emotional responses to real SPs (rSPs) compared with vSPs; however, understanding learners' emotional responses to vSPs is…

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