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HIV/AIDS: A Curriculum for Students in the Health Professions – Virtual Classroom

This was a collaborative endeavor between Dr. Joyce K. Anastasi, Columbia University School of Nursing, and Dartmouth Medical School's Interactive Media Laboratory. Our goal was to develop a virtual classroom and curriculum that would inform students in the health professions about HIV/AIDS. Our target audience was students in the health professions, with an emphasis on nursing and medical education. 

The program covers major aspects of HIV and AIDS from the molecular level to the complex psychosocial. The program seeks the highest quality in the use of media, including 3-D graphic models. 

There are interviews with real patients, health care providers, and one simulated patient. They are very moving — even riveting. The clients interviewed are from diverse backgrounds, two are married, one is a gay nurse, and one is a mother who lost her child to HIV. The simulated patient is a young woman for whom we provide care over a period of 4-5 years. It's designed to touch the heart as well as to stimulate the intellect. The program is available on laserdisc and CD-ROM. Our eventual goal is to use this program with multimedia servers and broadband networks, anticipating the imminent proliferation of networks capable of conveying interactive multimedia programming.

Funding:   

Pfizer Pharmaceutical 

Educational Training Grant 

Project Director / Author/ Co-Narrator: J. Anastasi

Technology: Dartmouth Media Lab

Title: Interactive Multimedia Video HIV/AIDS Curriculum for Health Professionals 

(Disc Version and CD-ROM Version 1 and 2)

Interactive Multimedia Primary Care of the HIV/AIDS Patient- A Virtual Clinic,  

This program was developed after the release of our flagship program, HIV/AIDS: A Curriculum for Students in the Health Professions.  This interactive, multimedia program focuses on training health care providers to care for patients with HIV. The program offers the user a chance to take on the role as the long-term primary care provider, and gives a first-hand sense of the emotional impact of HIV/AIDS on individual patients. 

The interactive video, sound, and graphics move the user through a "virtual clinic" that includes an orientation, a learning resources room, and encounters with a "virtual patient," a 20-year-old student named Laurie Matthews. Users interact with this patient extensively: prior to the diagnosis, soon afterwards, and years later. The patient's responses vary, depending on which questions are asked by the user, as well as how the user answers questions posed by the patient herself. For example, users can ask about the patient's sexual behaviors, or, based on cues from the patient, ask about her thoughts on having children. The learning resources room includes lectures and activities, as well as interviews with real patients from different walks of life. 

Funding:

Pfizer Pharmaceutical 

Educational Training Grant

Role: Project Director / Co-Author / Co-Narrator:  J. Anastasi

Title: Interactive Multimedia Video Primary Care of the HIV/AIDS Patient- A Virtual Clinic,