Original sentence: They can be structured with narratives that represent real situations while challenging the user with a wide range of tasks.Unlike real patients, virtual patients can be accessed on demand and they can be endlessly replayable to allow the user to explore different options and strategies.Virtual patients increase the availability of training opportunities for medical students, making them less dependent on actual cases to learn how to handle different situations
Edited sentence: At the same time we need more and more doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, indeed not just more doctors but better and safer doctors too.Clinical care is becoming faster and less invasive meaning that patients are spending less time in care.From a more positive perspective virtual patients allow healthcare education to be conducted in valid and authentic settings, they help to contextualise medical science, skills, sociology and knowledge and they can support students' synthesis of these different aspects of their training.Furthermore they can be significantly more immersive than other forms of study and they can be structured with narratives that represent real situations while challenging and engaging the user with a wide range of problems and tasks.Not only do virtual patients offer the promise of addressing the deficit in healthcare training opportunities but they help to move away from opportunistic training to more normalized patterns of student experience and study.Unlike real patients virtual patients can be accessed on demand and they can be endlessly replayable (allowing the user to explore different options and strategies).Widespread changes in employment legislation are leading to reduced working hours for doctors which in turn also reduce the capacity for bedside teaching