Welcome to Virtual Clinics
Virtual Clinics is our brand new, stimulating e-learning module for primary care clinicians providing educational, expert-led, evidence-based guidance and advice to increase your knowledge and confidence to deliver the best patient care and improve patient outcomes.
Follow a series of virtual patients presenting with a range of health conditions such as T2DM, CVD, HF, CRM, CKD and obesity, who will visit (and revisit) the clinic in real-time. These case study-based interactive journeys illustrate true-to-life patient experiences from diagnosis to treatment and management, whilst demonstrating the ever-evolving conditions and associated risks and complications that can arise.
Virtual Clinics will improve knowledge and understanding of common conditions by following practical, expert-led case studies.
What makes Virtual Clinics different from other e-learning modules?
- Virtual patients – Meet each patient and get to know their characters
- Patient health journeys, with multiple visits – Each patient visits the clinic at least 4 times over their journey, for follow-up appointments and subsequent reviews, demonstrating how their condition evolves during this period
- Medical notes – You receive access to the patient’s medical history and test results, along with expert commentary about the patient and their condition
- Interactive case assessments – Each visit comprises of a multiple-choice CPD question assessment where you, in consultation with the patient, help to decide how the patient should next be treated and managed
- Expert support – To guide you through, our experts will provide you with accessible links to the relevant evidence and guidance along the way, offering their expert advice and feedback at each stage
- Tailored correspondence – No matter when you sign up to see your patient, you will receive a full patient journey over the designated time period, with individually tailored e-alerts to notify you when your patient has returned for their next visit
- Certification – Following successful completion of each patient visit and assessment, you will gain CPD certificates and reflection forms which are automatically saved to your MyCPD area of the Issues & Answers website
Meet the latest cases in Virtual Clinics
LATEST PATIENT
Devin with hypertension and multiple metabolic log-term conditions
This case study explores the journey of Devin, initially diagnosed with hypertension and then later diagnosed with multiple metabolic long-term conditions in the run up to his 50th birthday.
Start Devin’s journeyThis educational programme has been supported by:
Boehringer Ingelheim has provided funding towards this independent Virtual Clinics programme. They have had no editorial input into or influence on the agenda and content of this virtual patient journey including the selection of the author(s). The content, opinions and statements made in this programme are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the supporters, editors or editorial board.
Diana with type 2 diabetes
Diana is 55 years old, has recently moved to the area and registered with your practice. She attends for her new patient medical with the Health Care Assistant who notes that she has type 2 diabetes and a 30-minute appointment is made with you for a diabetes review. Diana has quite a good understanding of diabetes – her mother had the condition and she also attended a structured education programme shortly after being diagnosed.
About the patients
All Virtual Clinics case study-based patient health journeys are reflective of real-life scenarios, developed by acknowledged experts working in these chronic disease areas. New patient journeys are coming soon, covering all the chronic conditions and diseases you see in your daily practice – diabetes, cardiovascular, respiratory and more…
Each patient journey includes:
- A realistic patient case with real-life issues that will evolve and require optimised care
- Return visits as the patient progresses on their journey, which you manage over a period of time
- Real-time alerts direct to your inbox, notifying you that your patient(s) next assessment is available
- Expert-based guidance every step of the way to improve your knowledge and increase confidence
- Access to evidence-based materials to support current guidance
- CPD visit assessments and reflection feedback to review and reward your learning throughout, available for download anytime in your ‘My Account’ page
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Up to date guidance
Convenient access to the latest guidance and up to date clinical evidence, plus expert advice from our case-study editors.
Confidence
Gain confidence and improve your knowledge and understanding for treating chronic conditions by following these practical, real-life patient case examples that have been written by experts.
CPD Certificates
Gain valuable CPD points with certificates during each visit/assessment that will be stored with reflection forms in your MyCPD account for easy access.
