Patent ID: 8480403

Claim:
A method for delivering medical care by improving decision-making skills of medical personnel who deliver the care, comprising the steps of: receiving by one or more processors normal data that indicates normal conditions in a patient, wherein the normal data includes data that indicates properties of an internal anatomical unit, a polymesh of coordinates associated with the anatomical unit and a mapping of the polymesh to a region of imagery data from a visible human data base, and associates the polymesh with the properties of the anatomical unit which include values for at least anatomical relationship, electromagnetic imaging characteristics, metabolic function, response to perturbations, and evolution with time; receiving by the one or more processors from an author abnormality data that indicates an abnormal condition in an patient, wherein the abnormality data indicates deviations from normal data; generating by the one or more processors an instance of a virtual patient based on the normal data and the abnormality data, wherein the instance of the virtual patient describes a sufficiently comprehensive physical state of a patient having the abnormal condition to simulate clinical measurements of the patient's condition including normal and abnormal properties of the anatomical unit; receiving by the one or more processors from a trainee who is different from the author action data that indicates a requested action relevant to dealing with the instance of the virtual patient; generating by the one or more processors response data based on the action data and the instance of the virtual patient; and initiating presenting by the one or more processors to the trainee display data based on the response data, wherein the display data indicates information about the instance of the virtual patient available to a medical professional as a result of the requested action.