JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

The Collaborative Clinical Simulation (CCS) model is a structured method for the development and assessment of clinical competencies through small groups working collaboratively on simulated environments. From 2016 to date, the CCS model has been applied successfully in undergraduate and graduate medical students from the University of Talca (Chile), the University of Barcelona (Spain), and in the University VIC-Manresa (Spain). All the templates for building the clinical cases and the assessment instruments with CCS were printed on paper. Considering several CCS sessions and the number of participating students that are required throughout the medical degree curriculum, it is impossible to keep an organized record when the instruments are printed on paper. Moreover, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the web-platforms take importance as a safe training environment for students and medical faculties, where the new educational environment should include the consolidation and adaptation of didactic sessions creating and using available virtual cases and using different web-platforms.

Objective:

Design and develop a web-platform to strengthen the Collaborative Clinical Simulation model.

Methods:

The design of the web platform was aimed to support each phase of the CCS by incorporating functional and non-functional requirements needed to run collaborative sessions. The software was developed under the Model-View-Controller architecture to separate the views from the data model and the business logic.

Results:

MOSAICO, a web platform to design, perform, and assess collaborative clinical scenarios for medical students. MOSAICO has four modules: educational design, students’ collaborative design, collaborative simulation, and collaborative debriefing. Three different user profiles: academic simulation unit, teacher, and student. These users interact under different roles in collaborative simulations. MOSAICO enables a collaborative environment (connected by the Internet) to design clinical scenarios guided by the teacher, and use all data generated for discussing in the debriefing session with the teacher as a guide.

Conclusions:

MOSAICO was implemented and is used frequently in different simulation sessions at the University of Talca, where medical students can work collaboratively connected by the Internet. The web platform supports all the stages of the CCS model, and the teachers use MOSAICO as technological infrastructure to schedule, design, and execute the simulation activities.