SIMPLE is here!
The Simulated Internal Medicine Patient Learning Experience (SIMPLE) is a comprehensive Internet-based learning program for use by core clerkship students. SIMPLE's 36 interactive virtual patient cases are designed to comprehensively cover the CDIM-Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Core Medicine Clerkship Curriculum.
SIMPLE is designed to supplement traditional clerkship teaching and patient care activities. It provides medical students and clerkship directors access to peer-reviewed learning materials that provide a solid foundation in internal medicine medical knowledge appropriate to the core clerkship student.
It is expected that each SIMPLE case will take a student approximately 45 minutes to complete, so that students may work through the full learning program over the course of an average clerkship.
PILOT TESTING
For institutions wishing to pilot test the SIMPLE cases, please go to www.simplecases.org/simple_access_req.htm and complete the online request form. Pilot testing is more involved than accessing and integrating the cases into a clerkship as it requires students and clerkship directors to actively participate in surveys about each case. Pilot testing also offers access beyond the cases themselves to allow for teaching faculty feedback as well. Although the SIMPLE cases will be available to any institution wishes to use the cases, pilot testing will be limited to a small number of institutitions. If you have any questions about pilot testing, please contact simplesupport@i-intime.org.
The cases available for pilot testing on July 1, 2008 are:
2. 60-year-old female non-smoker with chest pain on exertion – Ms. Johnston
Author: Kirk A. Bronander M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine
5. 55-year-old male with complaint of fatigue and weight loss – Mr. Kish
Authors: Susan L. Padrino, M.D., Klara K. Papp, PhD, Case Western Reserve U; Luis Ramirez, M.D., St. Vincent Charity Hospital; Luis Ramirez, M.D., Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.
Susan L. Padrino, M.D., Klara K. Papp, PhD, Case Western Reserve U; Luis Ramirez, M.D., St. Vincent Charity Hospital
6. 45-year-old African-American male with hypertension – Mr. Hicks
Author: Peter M. Gliatto M.D., Co-Director, Medicine-Geriatrics Clerkship, Department of Internal Medicine Mount Sinai School of Medicine
12. 55-year-old male with lower abdominal pain – Mr. Wilson
Author: Valerie J. Lang M.D, Clerkship Director, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
13. Annual physical in 65-year-old female – Mrs. Thompson
Author: Carlos Palacio M.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Florida Health Science Center/Jacksonville
14. 18-year-old female presents initially for a pre-college physical – Ms. Pham
Author: Regina A. Kovach M.D., Associate Professor, Director, Department of Internal Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
19. 42-year-old African-American female with anemia - Ms. Winters
Author: Jennifer R. Kogan M.D., Clerkship Director, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
20. 48-year-old female with HIV - Ms. Hunt
Irene Alexandraki M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville
26. 58-year-old homeless man with altered mental status - Mr. Johnson
Author: Hari Raja M.D., Clerkship Director, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
31. 40-year-old male with knee pain - Mr. Nelson
Author: Debra L. Stottlemyer M.D., Associate Clerkship Director, Department of Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
ACCESSING THE SIMPLE CASES
If you are interested in accessing the SIMPLE cases beginning in July 2008, please go to
the SIMPLE access request and complete the online request form to enable access to be activated for your institution. The SIMPLE cases will be available at no cost for any institution interested in integrating the cases into their clerkship from July of this year until the beginning on the next academic year in 2009.