The Virtual Health Care Team TM is a web site of interactive cases designed for practitioners, students and faculty interested in a variety of health care issues. These cases are primarily addressed to students but they may be useful to practitioners and consumers from many practice disciplines. They are written from a health care team point of view. Individual users can click on external links to pursue information from additional resources.
Cases follow a standard template and style guide.
Cases present a real-life health care problem from the point of view of different health care professionals, such as doctors, nurses, physical therapists, speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers, etc., working together as a team. Cases incorporate such learning theories as situated learning, problem-based learning, anchored instruction, and interactivity. Cases include external links as additional information resources. Cases allow readers to e-mail questions about the disease or treatment described to nurse practitioners. Cases are reviewed by an editorial board.