Medical students also desire integration of ophthalmology with other medical subjects, as future management of the whole patient requires broad based clinical skills. Students in the past have often struggled with obtaining the technical skills required to elicit clinical signs with the ophthalmic examination instruments. This has resulted in a reduction in the time available to interpret the findings and integrate them into management plans for the patient.The virtual ophthalmology clinic introduces the student to a simulated consulting room into which they select patients from a waiting room. The initial version of the program has recorded 13 problems. The clinical problems were derived from real patients who participated in a videoed interview. The interview was transcribed and the responses edited to match the conversation navigator icons. Four actors then played the parts of the 13 patients from the original interviews.

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