Researchers at UCL (Angelos Kassianos, Ruth Plackett and Jessica Sheringham) were funded by National Institute for Health Research (NIHR’s Policy Research Unit for Cancer Awareness, Screening and Early Diagnosis and The Health Foundation to develop an online patient simulation resource for medical students to teach clinical reasoning.

It’s targeted at final-year medical students in UK medical schools, was co-developed with end users and experts.

eCREST is now evaluated and used by medical, nursing, physician associate and pharmacist students’ trainees and professionals in the UK, Cyprus, Turkey, Spain and other countries. At the same time, BSiH lab researchers are involved in international use of eCREST Cyprus.

Use of experimental and implementation studies to:

1. Conduct high quality research to examine visual attention and diagnostic decision-making in health care trainees (e.g., trainee doctors and nurses) using elements from eCREST Cyprus
2. Assess the impact of eCREST Cyprus training on the clinical reasoning skills of healthcare trainees (doctors and nurses) by comparing their visual attention patterns before and after engaging in training with the eCREST Cyprus platform.
3. Adapt eCREST to be used in Cyprus with nursing students targeting clinical reasoning skills