%0 Journal Article
%T Initial construct validity evidence of a virtual human application for competency assessment in breaking bad news to a cancer patient
%A Amy B Zelenski
%A Frederick W Kron
%A James F Cleary
%A Mark W Scerbo
%A Michael D Fetters
%A Timothy C Guetterman
%A Toby C Campbell
%J Archive of "Advances in Medical Education and Practice".
%D 2017
%R 10.2147/AMEP.S138380
%X Despite interest in using virtual humans (VHs) for assessing health care communication, evidence of validity is limited. We evaluated the validity of a VH application, MPathic-VR, for assessing performance-based competence in breaking bad news (BBN) to a VH patient
%K verbal behavior
%K health communication
%K informatics
%K clinical competence
%K empathy
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5536229/