Publications

Abstracts on Virtual Patients and Virtual Reality

  1. Danforth, D.R. Development of an Interactive Virtual 3-D Model of the Human Testis Using the Second Life Platform. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, 2008.
  2. Schwaab, J., N. Kman, S. Khandelwal, D. Bahner, D. Martin, J. Vozenilek, R. Danforth, R. Nelson Virtual Examination is a Feasible Alternative to Traditional Mock Oral Examination for Emergency Medicine Residents.  Proceedings of the 19th Annual SAEM Midwest Regional Meeting, 2009
  3. Schwaab, J., N. Kman, S. Khandelwal, D. Bahner, D. Martin, J. Vozenilek, R. Danforth, R. Nelson Virtual Examination is a Feasible Alternative to Traditional Mock Oral Examination for Emergency Medicine Residents.  Proceedings of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine National Meeting,  Phoenix, Arizona, 2010.
  4. Danforth, D.R., Procter, M., Heller, R., Pasteur, E., Chen, R., Johnson, M., Kaffenberger, B., Fu, J. Development of Virtual Patient Simulations for Medical Education. CGEA Meeting, Chicago IL 2010.
  5. Danforth, D.R., Procter, M., Heller, R., Pasteur, E., Chen, R., Johnson, M., Jackson, C. Development of Virtual Patient Simulations for Medical Education. MedBiquitous Annual Conference April 2011.
  6. Danforth, D.R., Price, A., Maicher, K., Post, D., Clinchot, D., Ledford, C., Way, D., Cronau, H. Using Virtual Standardized Patients to Assess Communication Skills in Medical Students. Proceedings of the CGEA Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH March 2013.
  7. Danforth, D.R., Price, A., Maicher, K., Post, D.,  Liston, B., Clinchot, D., Ledford, C., Way, D., Cronau, H.  Can Virtual Standardized Patients be used to assess communication skills in medical students? Proceedings of the 17th Annual IAMSE Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland June 2013.
  8. Danforth, D.R., Post, D., Cronau, H., Rizer, M., Curren, C., Ledford C., Price, A., Maicher, K. Virtual Reality: a Unique Approach for Teaching the Reality of the Patient Centered Medical Home Proceedings of the 17th Annual IAMSE Meeting, St. Andrews, Scotland June 2013.
  9. McGrath, J., N. Kman, R. Danforth, R. Nagel, N. Verbeck, S. Khandelwal, D. Bahner, D. Martin, R. Nelson Virtual Examination is a Feasible Alternative to Traditional Mock Oral Examination for Emergency Medicine Residents.  Proceedings of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 2014
  10. McGrath, J., N. Kman, R. Danforth, R. Nagel, N. Verbeck, S. Khandelwal, D. Bahner, D. Martin, R. Nelson Virtual Examination is a Feasible Alternative to Traditional Mock Oral Examination for Emergency Medicine Residents.  Proceedings of the Council of Residency Directors Academic Assembly, New Orleans, LA., 2014
  11. Danforth, D.R., Price, A., Maicher, K., Post, D., Liston, B.,  Ledford, C., Way, D., Cronau, H. Using Virtual Standardized Patients (VSP) to assess communication skills in medical students Proceedings of the Generalists in Medical Education Meeting, Chicago, IL November 2014.
  12. Belknap, L., Cronau, H., Curren, C., Danforth, D.R., J. Lehman, A. Macerollo, D. Post, M. Rizer. Innovative Multimodal Approach to Teaching Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Central Group on Educational Affairs, Columbus, OH April 9-12, 2015
  13. Gokcen, A., Jaffe, E., Erdmann, J, White, M., Danforth, D.R. A Corpus of Word-Aligned Asked and Anticipated Questions in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 23-28, 2016
  14. Danforth, D.R., Zimmerman, L., Maicher, K., Cronau, H., Ledford, C., Post, D., Macerollo, A., Way, D., Liston, B. Virtual Standardized Patients can accurately assess information gathering skills in medical students. Proceedings of the American Association of Medical Colleges, Seattle, WA, November 11-15 2016
  15. Smith, C., Gregory, J., Rudnicki, A., Danforth, D.R., Zhong, A., Iloreta, A., Soriano, R., Justin, G. Virtual Reality in Medical Education: The Road We Are On. Proceedings of the American Association of Medical Colleges, Seattle, WA, November 3-7 2017
  16. White, M., E. Jaffe, L. Zimmerman Danforth. Combining Logistic Regression and Pattern Matching in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System. Midwest Speech and Language Days, Chicago. 2017.
  17. Danforth, D.R., Stiff, A., Maicher, K., Scholl, M., White, M., Fosler-Lussier, E., Schuler, W. Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Standardized Patients: Combining Natural Language Understanding and Rule Based Dialogue management to improve conversational fidelity. Proceedings of the 20th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, San Diego, CA, January 17-22, 2020
  18. Danforth, D.R., Kman, N., Price, A., Maicher, K., Berezina-Blackburn, V., Patterson, J., Way, D., McGrath, J., Olszewski, A. Virtual Reality for mass casualty training.  International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, Los Angeles, CA January 15-19, 2022.
  19. Kman, N., Price, A., Berezina-Blackburn, V., Patterson, J., Maicher, K., Panchal, A., Way, D., McGrath, J., Luu, K., Oliszewski, A., Swearingen, S., Winegardner, Z., Danforth, D.R. Virtual Reality to Train and Assess Emergency Personnel Responding to A Mass Casualty Incident. Proceedings of the National Association of EMS Physicians, San Diego, CA January 10-15, 2022
  20. Malone, M., Kman, N., San Miguel, C., Frey, J., Leung, C., Schaffernocker, T., Way, D., Vakil, J., Taydon, B., Danforth, D.R. Virtual Reality Simulation to Assess EPA-10 in Fourth-Year Medical Students. Proceedings of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, New Orleans, LA, May 10-13, 2022

Manuscripts on Virtual Patients and Virtual Reality

  1. Danforth D.R., Procter, R. Heller, R. Chen, M. Johnson Development of Virtual Patient Simulations for Medical Education. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 2(2):4-11, 2009. doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v2i2.707
  2. Danforth D.R. Development of an Interactive Virtual 3-D Model of the Human Testis Using the Second Life Platform. International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments. 1(2): 45-58, 2010. dx.doi.org/10.4018/jvple.2010040104
  3. Schwaab, J., N. Kman, R. Nagel, D. Bahner, D. Martin, S. Khandelwal, J Vozenilek, R. Danforth, R. Nelson, Using Second Life Virtual Simulation Environment for Mock Oral Emergency Medicine Examination. Academic Emergency Medicine 2011; 18:559-562. doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01064.x
  4. McGrath, J., N. Kman, R. Danforth, D. Bahner, S. Khandelwal, D. Martin, R. Nagel, N Verbeck, D. Way, R. Nelson, Virtual alternative to the oral examination for emergency medicine residents. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015; 16(2):336-343. dx.doi.org/10.5811%2Fwestjem.2015.1.24344
  5. Jaffe, E., M. White, W. Schuler, E. Fosler-Lussier, A. Rosenfeld, Danforth. Interpreting Questions with a Log-Linear Ranking Model in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System. The 10th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. 2015 dx.doi.org/10.3115/v1/W15-0611
  6. Gokcen, A., E. Jaffe, J. Erdmann, M. White, Danforth. A Corpus of Word-Aligned Asked and Anticipated Questions in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System. The 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 2016
  7. Maicher, K., Danforth, A. Price, L. Zimmerman, B. Wilcox, B. Liston, H. Cronau, L. Belknap, C. Ledford, D. Way, D. Post, A. Macerollo, M. Rizer Developing a Conversational Virtual Standardized Patient to Enable Students to Practice History Taking Skills. Simulation in Healthcare 2017; 12(2):124-131. doi.org/10.1097/SIH.0000000000000195
  8. Jin, L., M. White, E. Jaffe, L. Zimmerman, Danforth. Combining CNNs and Pattern Matching for Question Interpretation in a Virtual Patient Dialogue System. The 12th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. 2017 dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-5002
  9. Motz, P., Gray, M., Sawyer, T., Kett, J., Danforth D., Maicher, K., Umoren, R. Virtual Antenatal Encounter and Standardized Simulation Assessment (VANESSA): A Pilot Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Serious Games, 2018; 6(2):e8. dx.doi.org/10.2196%2Fgames.9611
  10. Jin, L., King, D., Hussein, A., White, M., Danforth, D. Using Paraphrasing and Memory-Augmented Models to Combat Data Sparsity in Question Interpretation with a Virtual Patient Dialogue System. The 13th Workshop on the Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. 2018 dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W18-0502
  11. McGrath, J, Taekman, J., Dev, P., Danforth, D.R., Mohan, D., Kman, N., Crichlow, A., Bond, W. Using Virtual Reality Simulation Environments to Assess Competence for Emergency Medicine Learners. Academic Emergency Medicine 2018;25:186–195. doi.org/10.1111/acem.13308
  12. Maicher, K., Zimmerman, L., Wilcox, B., Liston, B., Cronau, H., Macerollo, A., Jin, L., Jaffe, E., White, M., Fosler-Lussier, E., Schuler, W., Way, D., Danforth, D. Using Virtual Standardized Patients to Accurately Assess Information Gathering Skills in Medical Students. Medical Teacher 2019; 41(9): 1053 – 1059 doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2019.1616683
  13. Stiff, A., White, M., Fosler-Lussier, E., Jin, L., Jaffe, E., Danforth, D. A randomized prospective study of a hybrid rule- and data-driven virtual patient. Natural Language Engineering 23 September 2022; doi:10.1017/S1351324922000420.
  14. Maicher, , Stiff, A., Scholl, M., White, M., Fosler-Lussier, E., Schuler, W., Serai, P., Sunder, V., Forrestal, H., Mendella, L., Adib, M., Bratton, C., Lee, K., Danforth, D.R. Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Standardized Patients: Combining Natural Language Understanding and Rule Based Dialogue Management to Improve Conversational Fidelity. Medical Teacher (In Press).

Presentations on Virtual Patients and Virtual Reality

  • “Biological simulations for medical education” Eduverse Foundation Symposium on Virtual Worlds, February 27, 2008
  • “Development of a virtual model of the human testis using the Second Life platform” University of Hamburg, Germany Second Life Campus, May 6, 2008
  • “Virtual Patients for Medical Education” Eduverse Foundation Symposium on Virtual Worlds, September 23, 2008
  • “Medical Education in Second Life at Ohio State” University of Cincinnati Second Life Campus, February 11, 2009
  • “Ohio State University College of Medicine: Second Life Campus”. OLN Learning, Libraries, and Technology Conference, February 27, 2009
  • “Using Virtual Patients for Medical Education” OSU Parent Weekend presentation, March 6, 2009
  • “Immersive Medical School Models” International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Speaker Series, September 1, 2009
  • “Effective Use of Technology in Healthcare Education” OSU Faculty Scholars Program, July 15, 2009
  • “Immersive Learning Environments: Using Virtual Patients for Medical Education” OSU Medical Alumni Reunion Presentation 9/12/2009
  • “Using Virtual Worlds for Science and Medical Education” Ohio Educational Technology Conference, February 2, 2010
  • “Virtual Patients for Medical Education”, Presented at the National Robotics Week Convention on April 15, 2011
  • “Virtual Patient Simulations for Medical Education” Presented at Athabasca University Second Life Campus, September 30, 2011
  • “Virtual Standardized Patients for Medical Education”, Presented virtually at The College of New Jersey, April 10, 2013
  • “Using Virtual Standardized Patients (VSP) to assess history taking skills in medical students”. Plenary Speaker at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Ohio Society of Radiologic Technologists, Columbus, OH April 9-11, 2015
  • “Innovative Uses of Technology in Education”, Keynote Presentation for the Ohio State University College of Optometry Extern Preceptor Conference, Columbus, OH March 31, 2017
  • “Using Virtual Reality Simulation Environments to Assess Competence for Emergency Medicine Learners”, Panelist at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Conference, Orlando FL. May 16, 2017
  • “Using Virtual Reality as an Instructional Tool”, Buckeye Fire and EMS Conference, Columbus, OH. September 7, 2017.
  • “Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Medical Education”, International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Web Seminar, September 27, 2018
  • “Virtual Reality Applications in Medical Education”, OSU CREATE Surgical Innovations Symposium, April 26, 2019
  • “Artificial Intelligence in Virtual Standardized Patients”, AAMC Group on Information Resources Web Seminar, May 29, 2019.
  • “Natural Language Dialogue Systems using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” Presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Ohio State University, December 3, 2019.
  • “Developing Virtual Standardized Patients for Health Sciences Education using Natural Language Dialogue Systems” Presentation for Western University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, November 18, 2021.