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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2004
Walton Sumner, Ii, Webster Groves, MO (US);
Jinzhong Xu, Lexington, KY (US);
Guy H. Roussel, Lexington, KY (US);
Richard J. Rovinelli, Lexington, KY (US);
Michael D. Hagen, Lexington, KY (US);
Walton Sumner, II, Webster Groves, MO (US);
Jinzhong Xu, Lexington, KY (US);
Guy H. Roussel, Lexington, KY (US);
Richard J. Rovinelli, Lexington, KY (US);
Michael D. Hagen, Lexington, KY (US);
American Board of Family Medicine, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is generally related to a computer architecture and process for evaluating and reporting on a user's competence in managing a simulation of a complex system modeled in a computer based testing and training system. The simulation may be called a 'virtual system.' The method generates evaluation criteria responsive to a user profile, user choices in managing the virtual system, and events that occur during a simulation, in addition to the original state of the system. The method produces summary evaluations responsive to a plurality of characteristics of the simulated system. The implementation may be advantageously employed to evaluate a medical clinician's management of computer-simulated human patients, hereinafter called 'virtual patients'. The present invention is also suitable for evaluation of user management of a plurality of complex systems including but not limited to animals, plants, cells, machines, and populations.