Towards multilingual and multinational repurposing and

sharing of virtual patients: experiences from a Greek-English

case collaboration

E. Dafli, P.D. Bamidis , A. Somasunderam , C. Balasubramaniam , N. Dombros, T. PoultonAristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

St George’s University of London (UK)

Repurposing in virtual patients

Means?Converting a VP for one purpose into a VP for a new one Why?Effort/cost effectiveNeed to exchange educational material between experts To?Different culturesDifferent educational levelsDifferent educational scenariosDifferent structuresDifferent VP systems

AUTH-SGUL: Our experience

A VP- branching - Problem Based Learning - scenario {chest pain}

According MedBiquitous standardsDeveloped from Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreek language-idiosyncrasy-pedagogyParticipation of St George’s University of London AUTH SGUL Repurposed to an English virtual patient

Greek version English version

Process

Available:clinical scenario, branching path, media files

The VP had to be repurposed to:

Different languageDifferent cultureDifferent pedagogical approachDifferent healthcare system

Step 1

Greek VUE file English VUE file

Step 2

Upload to OpenLabyrinth

Step 3

Translate 80 nodes and 120 links

Step 4

Changes in content

Step 5

Remove / add media files

Step 6

Adjust settings concerning scores and counters

Our repurposed virtual patient!

Considerations during repurposing

Useful to reuse existing Virtual Patients among institutionsHOWEVER

Repurposing ≠ TranslationDifferences in healthcare system structure and

operationCultural differencesIdiosyncrasyDifferent choices in educational methods

Next step…Evaluation

Thank you!

Eleni Dafli,MD, MSc, PhD candidateLab of Medical InformaticsAristotle University of Thessaloniki