Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Canada.
Med Teach. 2011;33(4):303-10. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2011.550969.
Digital technologies are used in almost every aspect of contemporary health professional education (HPE) but our understanding of their true potential as instructional tools rather than administrative tools has not significantly advanced in the last decade. One notable exception to this has been the rise of the 'virtual patient' as an educational intervention in HPE. This article attempts to deconstruct the virtual patient concept by developing a model of virtual patients as artifacts with intrinsic encoded properties and emergent constructed properties that build on the core concept of 'activity'.
数字技术几乎被应用于当代健康专业教育（HPE）的各个方面，但在过去十年中，我们对它们作为教学工具而非管理工具的真正潜力的理解并没有显著提高。一个显著的例外是“虚拟患者”作为 HPE 中的一种教育干预手段的兴起。本文试图通过构建一个虚拟患者作为具有内在编码属性和新兴构建属性的人工制品的模型来解构虚拟患者的概念，这些属性建立在“活动”的核心概念之上。
