WO2020154782A1

WO2020154782A1 - Simulated virtual education platform for healthcare professionals and academics

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Publication number: WO2020154782A1
Application number: PCT/BR2019/050280
Authority: WO
Inventors: Hélcio LEVINDO COELHO NETO
Original assignee: Levindo Coelho Neto Hélcio
Priority date: 2019-02-01
Filing date: 2019-07-17
Publication date: 2020-08-06
Also published as: BR102019002161A2

Abstract

The simulated virtual education platform for healthcare professionals and academics includes a set of functions intended to promote complete learning in users using the concepts set out in Edgar Dale's learning pyramid. Users have access to audiovisual resources and discussion forums, and can test their knowledge through practical activities, such as: examinations, tests, virtual simulations of clinical cases and video recordings, which can be made available to friends and other users. The platform also includes social and developmental resources, such as user profiles, user groups, user-post following, levels and score rankings. This innovation is intended for the fields of education and healthcare, and the clients can be end consumers, natural persons, institutions and companies in the healthcare sector.

Description

Simulated Virtual Education Platform for Healthcare Professionals and Academics

The present invention refers to a simulated virtual education platform for healthcare professionals and academics. This innovation is aimed at the field of education and health, with the final consumer, individuals, institutions and companies in the health area as clients.

Taking Edgar Dale's Learning Pyramid as a base, which mentions the degree of content retention with each of the teaching methodologies, it appears that the form of teaching adopted today is very ineffective, as the different methods are very little integrated, being necessary to resort to several means to achieve the desired result of success.

Today's forms of learning can be summed up in ways that are not very dynamic: textbooks, articles, scientific papers, theoretical classes and video lessons. There are channels with access to content like YouTube, but without specific control of the quality and veracity of the content posted by the creators. There are limited games on the market, with no specific debriefing, just a checklist, discussion forums; video classes, network platform and commented questions.

The growing technology and dynamism are not accompanied by traditional books that remain dull, little interactive and most with extremely tiring readings. In the health area, in particular, this is most evident because it is a serious and extremely important issue. Methodologies focusing on health and direct improvement in people's lives continue with an extremely formal language, with little objectivity and with an excess of information, many of them without the least relevance to the student's practical life.

There is no platform or site that integrates the different forms of learning retention as described in Edgar Dale's pyramid. In order to have access to all the items described, it is necessary that a good part of the items mentioned be carried out in person.

Simulators in the field of higher education, such as medicine, are very basic, very plastered and with function limitations. They are not very dynamic and limit the user in the vast majority of real actions that would be possible or performed in practical life. The "feedback" of the actions performed, "debriefing", are very superficial and are summarized in "checklists" of the actions taken.

The education platform developed, based on the Edgar Dale Pyramid, aims to educate health professionals and will have all the resources involving the different forms of methodologies, such as: theoretical classes, readings, audiovisual, demonstrations, forum for discussion, tests and tests, virtual simulator of clinical cases, social resources, learning by doing and teaching others by recording videos to be made available to other users.

Therefore, there is no education platform on the market for health professionals and academics with all the resources provided by this platform.

The objective of the invention is to provide a simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics that is a world reference with a totally innovative methodology. This platform focuses on learning, generating content and greater interactivity with the student.

The present invention aims to provide a simulated virtual education platform for healthcare professionals that is a world reference with a totally innovative methodology.

This platform has a set of functionalities in order to promote the complete learning of users through concepts presented in the Learning Pyramid of Edgar Dale, such as: audiovisual resources; Discussion Forum; resources to test users' knowledge through tests and tests with multiple choice questions; virtual simulator of clinical cases, where through a three-dimensional scenario, the user must perform the care of fictitious patients by correctly executing the pre-established protocols with specific debriefing for each action taken; video recording resources that can be made available to other users of the platform; social and evolutionary features, such as user profile, user groups, following users' posts, levels and “ranking” of scores.

Fig.1

Flowchart display screen.

Fig.2

Flowchart display screen.

Fig.3

Screen for adding steps.

Fig.4

Screen for adding steps.

Fig.5

Screen for editing parameters.

Fig.6

Screen for editing parameters.

Fig.7

Screen with parameter list.

Fig.8

Screen for editing actions.

Fig.9

Screen with list of actions.

Fig.10

Screen with the protocols.

Fig.11

Screen with the protocols.

Fig.12

Screen for editing links.

Fig.13

Virtual simulation screen.

Fig.14

Virtual simulation screen.

The present invention refers to a simulated virtual education platform for healthcare professionals that is a world reference with a totally innovative methodology.

The need for greater use of time, continuous dedication and access to information outside of school and work are the motivators for the development of this platform. All of this aligned with a new way of learning, more dynamic, less boring and possible to access anywhere and anytime.

The educational platform has a set of functionalities in order to promote the complete learning of users through concepts presented in the Learning Pyramid of Edgar Dale.

The case management system is based on the Web and allows the management of parameters, actions, protocols and clinical cases, in order to keep the simulator always updated and to increase the number of cases and variables.

Each clinical case has a set of data and parameters, allowing the analysis of information by the user as soon as the correct care is performed.

The process that involves the clinical case follows the flowchart created, which presents the steps and possible actions to be taken in the case under analysis, as can be seen in the examples presented in figures 1 and 2.

The stages of each clinical case (figures 3 and 4) are the stages that the patient can have within that service. Every clinical case begins with an internship (figure 4) that the user will use to identify the case and take the necessary measures.

At each stage, parameters (figure 3, 4, 5 and 6) and actions (figure 8) are defined, which can be created at any time, if necessary. The parameters are the patient's condition at that stage and if any patient parameter is not described in the stage, it will then be inherited from the previous stage. The list of actions, which are correct or incorrect, are possible to be performed at this stage of the process.

The parameters determine the patient's condition. For example, the parameters that can be configured (figure 7), follow: pulmonary and cardiac auscultation, capillary glycemia, cardiac rhythms, spontaneous breathing, capillary filling time, patient-reported pain score / scale, heart rate, regular rhythm, scale Glasgow, level of consciousness, gastrointestinal bleeding, respiratory rate, pulmonary percussion, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, central pulse, among others.

Like the actions that determine the possible actions to be taken by the user within the available simulator (figure 9), follow: acquire venous access, perform cardiac auscultation, perform pulmonary auscultation, perform synchronized electrical cardioversion, insert nasal catheter, check patient responsiveness , perform cardiac compression, perform defibrillation, perform complementary exams, establish an advanced airway, do temperature control, insert a pacemaker in different shapes, insert an oxygen and / or venturi mask, monitor the patient in its different forms, monitor the temperature in its different forms, establish supplemental oxygen, search for reversible causes of PCR, CPR, request exams, request defibrillator / AED, check capillary filling time, perform patient transfer, treat hyper and hypotension, check blood pressure, check pulse and / or breathing, check protocol of the straight line in their differs in these ways, check oxygen saturation, perform physical examination in its different forms, administer medications in its different routes and other actions to be considered.

Each action can have application options, such as defibrillation, where the user must choose the potency or drugs in which the user must choose the desired dosage.

Protocols (figure 10) are standard services that must be followed for the treatment of a given situation. As soon as the user identifies a condition in the patient, he must start attending the protocol immediately.

The steps are related through links, which can be edited and are represented by lines as seen in figures 11 and 12, where the actions are identified by the correct (1), incorrect (2) and partially correct (3) lines ). Each step can have more than one correct action, which may or may not be mandatory and have an exact order to be performed.

A clinical case, due to its complexity, may contain several protocols in its flowchart, as can be seen in figure 10, which contains 4 different protocols within its standard care.

The protocols work similarly to clinical cases, having a flowchart that determines the steps, parameters and possible actions to be performed.

At the end of the protocol, depending on the actions taken, it is possible to obtain success (1) or failure (2), which in turn leads to the respective stage in the main flow of the clinical case.

Within the platform, users will have access to the following functionalities that will meet all the requirements of Edgar Dale's Learning Pyramid:

Audiovisual Resources

The platform presents content in written form, through texts, documents and teaching materials and also through streaming videos. Video-type videos, as well as interview programs, where issues related to health will be discussed, will be made available.

TalkShow Program

The platform has, in addition to the video classes, an interview program recorded in a studio with a specific scenario, where there will be a fixed presenter and each program will receive a different guest (s) who is a professional reference in the medical area, where the guest and the presenter will discuss a real clinical case from beginning to end, following a standard program script.

There will initially be 2 (two) different presenters, one presenting a program with medical content and the other presenting content on nursing and physiotherapy.

Discussion Forum

The platform contains a discussion forum, where doubts and other related matters can be posted. The questions available in the discussion forum will be open for consultation and may be indexed by a search engine, such as Google. Only registered users of the platform will be able to register, reply and vote in the discussion forum.

Both the question and the answers can receive positive and negative votes from other users, allowing both the questions and their respective answers to be ordered by relevance, making access to information faster and more objective.

The user who created the question will also be able to mark one of the answers as correct, making that answer stand out on the question page.

Each vote received in the discussion forum will convert into a score for the user who received the vote. This score will be counted in a ranking showing the most engaged users on the platform.

Ranking

The platform will have a scoring system that can be acquired through engagement within the platform, as an example, through the viewing of didactic content and videos, questions, answers and votes in the discussion forum, resolution of simulated tests, etc.

The user's score will place you in the platform's engagement ranking. The user will be able to filter the ranking as he wishes, for example, general ranking of the platform, ranking among his friends and participating groups.

Tags

All content on the platform will be related to previously defined tags, and these tags will serve as a filter for the content of the platform.

Each user will be able to define in their profile what are their favorite tags, and with that, customize the content displayed on the platform according to their preferences and needs.

Practice

The user will be able to test his knowledge through tests and tests with multiple choice questions. After performing the test, the user will receive their grade and comments on the questions.

The user will also have at his disposal, on the platform, a virtual simulator (figures 13 and 14) of clinical cases, where through a 3D scenario, the user must perform the care of fictitious patients by correctly executing the pre-established protocols. Looking for greater realism, all actions, both correct and wrong, will generate consequences, and may even cause the death of the virtual patient. At the end of the procedure, the user will have a "checklist" informing him of his correct and incorrect actions, and complementary content to assist in learning.

To complement the practice, the user will have a platform where he can teach the studied content, recording videos and making it available to friends and other users of the platform. The recorded videos will be made available within the platform and may receive comments and votes.

Voices with different narrators will be recorded: 4 adults (2 men and 2 women) and children (boys and girls). When it comes to children, the speeches will be more limited, because who will answer most of the questions will be the “parents”, therefore, the voice of adults.

In all simulations, clinical cases, a brief introduction to the case will be given in written form. To learn more information about the anamnesis, the student must refer with voice command or selecting pre-established and written questions. If the student prefers a voice command, he will address himself with a phrase or word and, thus, the simulator will recognize that he wants the audio responses and will respond accordingly. On the other hand, if the student chooses any pre-established written question, the system will recognize that he prefers written answers. Thus, it will be possible for the student to use the platform in environments with other people or in environments that are alone, choosing the most suitable way for the moment of study.

All possible responses will be recorded, either in sentences or words. The platform will be programmed to join the words or phrases in a logical way and thus allow a more reliable interaction with the student. The student has different ways of asking the patient (virtual simulator) how he is feeling. For example: "How are you?", "Are you all right?", "Are you all right?" the program will be able to identify the different forms of the same question and will provide an adequate and standardized answer.

The platform also has social and evolution features, such as user profile, user groups, following users' posts, levels and "ranking" of scores.

Below is table 1 of each methodology and the percentage of content retention, from the least effective to the most effective.

Percentage	Edgar Dale	Platform
5%	Theoretical class	Video lessons, interview program, complementary material, articles and documents
10%	Readings
20%	Audio-visual
30%	Statements	Videos and play in the simulator
50%	Group discussion	Forum
75%	Learn by doing	Simulator
90%	Teach others	Record videos

This platform has the following benefits: greater dynamism in learning; increased likelihood of content retention; all the possibilities of content retention available for the student to choose the one that best fits his profile; greater interactivity with the platform and with other students and teachers; personal evolution; "Network"; access to free and indexed content on major search engines; content filtering using smart keywords; virtual simulator.

The education and health market is a promising and growing market both in Brazil and worldwide. Brazil is currently the country with the largest number of medical schools in the world, totaling around 310 colleges and it certainly will not stop there. There are several new claims from universities / colleges requesting the opening of the medical course to add their portfolio.

With the huge increase in the number of academics and, consequently, professionals in the market, the need for qualification and constant updating to be able to maintain or join the job market increases.

Based on the Learning Pyramid of Edgar Dale, which mentions the degree of content retention with each of the teaching methodologies, it is clear that the form of teaching adopted today is very ineffective, the different methods are very little integrated , being necessary to resort to several means to achieve the desired result of success.

Today's forms of learning can be summed up in ways that are not very dynamic: textbooks, articles, scientific papers, theoretical classes and video lessons. There are also channels with access to content like YouTube, but without specific control over the quality and veracity of the content posted by the creators.

The growing technology and dynamism are not accompanied by traditional books that remain dull, little interactive and in the majority with extremely tiring readings. When we look at the health area, in particular, this is even more evident, as these are serious and extremely important issues. The focus on health and direct improvement in people's lives continues with an extremely formal language, with little objectivity and with an excess of information, many of them with no relevance to the student's practical life.

There is no platform or the same place that integrates the different forms of learning retention as described in the Edgar Dale Pyramid. In order to have access to all the items described, it is necessary that a good part of the items mentioned be carried out in person.

Simulators in the field of higher education, such as medicine, are very basic, very plastered and with function limitations. They are not very dynamic and limit the user in the vast majority of real actions, which would be possible or performed in practical life. The "feedback" of the actions taken, "debriefing", are very superficial and summarize in "checklists" of the actions taken.

Claims

Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, characterized by having a set of functionalities in order to promote the complete learning of users through concepts presented in the Learning Pyramid of Edgar Dale.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact of having audiovisual resources.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that it has a discussion forum.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that it has resources to test users' knowledge through tests and tests with multiple choice questions.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that it has a virtual simulator of clinical cases, where through a three-dimensional scenario, the user must perform the care of fictional patients performing correctly pre-established protocols.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 5, characterized by the fact of having specific debriefing for each action taken.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that it has video recording resources that can be made available to other users of the platform.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that it has social and evolution features, such as user profile, user groups, following users' posts, levels and “ranking ”Of scores.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact of having voice recordings with different narrators in the interview program: 4 adults (2 men and 2 women) and children (boys and girls).
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact of having a scoring system that will position the user in the platform's engagement ranking.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the entire content of the platform is related to previously defined tags, and these tags will serve as a filter for the content of the platform.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the platform allows interaction with the student through voice command or through writing.
Simulated virtual education platform for health professionals and academics, according to claim 1, characterized by the fact that the platform has, in addition to video classes, an interview program recorded in a studio with a specific scenario, where there will be a fixed presenter and each program will receive one (or more) different guest (s) who are a reference professional in the medical field, where the guest and the presenter will discuss a real clinical case from beginning to end, following a standard program script.