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DxR Clinician - Overview

Pre-authored virtual patient case studies for medical schools, physician assistant programs, and nurse practitioner programs.

DxR Clinician is Web-based patient simulation software for medical schools, physician assistant programs, and nurse practitioner programs for teaching, learning, and evaluating key clinical reasoning skills. Instructors can choose from a catalog of 121 proven, full-featured, professionally edited cases covering a broad range of clinical problems based on actual patient data.

Students investigate the patient problem using interview, simulated physical exam, and lab tests features, develop a hypothesis list, diagnose the patient, and then create a management plan.

The software records each decision in the student's clinical reasoning process for evaluation by the instructor.

DxR Clinician is available in Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese through our international distributors.


Pricing and Licensing Information

Contact our sales team to receive a free demo CD and catalog of cases. You can reach them by phone toll-free at 866-599-1140 or by email at sales@dxrgroup.com.

DxR Clinician - Features for Faculty

Management Utility
Use the cases as they are presented or modify any case data to suit your instructional goals and the educational levels of your students. With this program you can:

  • easily install cases, with your own customized delivery settings
  • add or change responses to questions, results of exams, and laboratory findings.
  • adjust the evaluation criteria and the delivery of case content to suit nearly all educational situations.

Record Utility
A flexible tool that allows instructors to evaluate and score student performance in demonstrating key problem-solving skills. Compare individual and group performance data and print detailed reports of student performance.

DxR Authoring
Go online to create a new case with evaluation criteria, and then see the results immediately! DxR Development Group offers case authors graphics assistance during case development and marketing expertise for completed cases.

DxR Clinician - Features for Students

Students assess and diagnose a patient online as their clinical reasoning process is recorded for evaluation at the instructor's convenience. As students progress through a DxR Clinician Case study, they have the opportunity to:

  • collect patient history information from a database of over 250 questions
  • perform a virtual physical exam using 18 exam tools with text, graphic and audio responses
  • order lab tests from the database of more than 650 labs
  • learn more about the patient problem with instructor-specified Web links, make and print notes on the case study
  • compile a list of working hypotheses and final diagnoses
  • form a problem list
  • develop a management plan
  • respond to basic and clinical content questions and
  • receive performance feedback immediately on completing the case study!

DxR Clinician - Screenshots

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Waiting Room

DxR Clinician cases are installed into the waiting room. Users enter their assigned case by clicking the patient chart.

Presenting Situation

DxR Clinician's Presenting Situation screen introduces the patient and the chief complaint and allows users to choose how to begin their clinical investigation.

Virtual Physical Exam

In DxR Clinician, users simulate physical exams using 18 exam tools to make over 425 possible exam selections, including auscultation of heart and lung sounds. Exam results may be presented as text, audio, graphics or video.

Lab Tests

DxR Clinician allows users to order from a database of hundreds of lab tests, review and interpret results, and then use the findings to help them arrive at a diagnosis of the patient problem.

Treatment

DxR Clinician allows users to develop a management plan for the patient by specifying from a wide list of treatment options ranging from nursing care to procedures, medications, or follow-up.

Initial Self-Assessment

At the end of a DxR Clinician case, the Initial Self-Assessment provides users immediate feedback on their performance. User selections will be compared to the standards set by the author/instructor for properly investigating the case. A star denotes appropriate selections included in the user's investigation.

DxR Clinician - Downloads

Version 3 Documentation:
Version 3 Student Record Utility:
Tool for evaluating student records that have been created by version 3 of DxR Clinician.
Supported Platforms:
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Intel Mac OS 10.5.2 or later

Version 2 Documentation:
Version 2 Student Record Utility:
Tool for evaluating student records that have been created by DxR Clinician.
Supported Platforms:
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Intel Mac OS 10.5.2 or later


DxR Clinician - Testimonials

DxR Clinician virtual patient problem-solving case studies have been used in medical schools, nurse practitioner programs, and physician assistant programs across the United States, as well as in several other countries. Here's what some of our customers say about DxR Clinician:

"We have learned a lot about our students' abilities and even more about our curriculum by looking at the results of these exams. DxR Clinician is a very powerful analytical tool."

Carol F. Whitfield, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular Molecular Biology
Penn State University College of Medicine

"Using the DxR Clinician software, our students begin developing clinical problem-solving skills in the first weeks of medical school. As students work through the cases, they learn about important diagnoses. DxR Clinician's evaluation software identifies common errors in their work-ups, allowing faculty members to address these issues directly with the students."

Richard DiCarlo, MD
Assistant Dean, Office of Medical Education
Associate Professor, Section of Infectious Diseases
Louisiana State University School of Medicine

DxR Clinician - Sample Case

enter Sample CaseClick here to access the DxR Clinician Sample Case.

Instructions: When the login screen appears, type in your email address, click the Enter button, then click the Start link to enter the Sample Case.

To exit the Sample Case without completing it, close your browser window. A record of your work will be saved and you may re-enter the case to complete your work later.

To re-enter the Sample Case, type in your email address, click Enter, and then click the Continue Case link. To start over in the Sample Case, type in your email address appending an alpha-numeric character to it to associate with the new record. Click the Enter button, then click the Start link.

Note: You will have unlimited access to the record of your work in the Sample Case until 60-days after you complete the Sample Case or until your account has been inactive for 60-days. At that point, your email address and record from the Sample Case will be deleted.

Privacy Policy: Your privacy is important to us! DxR Development Group does not sell or distribute user email addresses used to access the Sample Case.