Main product: TheraSim CS (Clinical Simulator) - clinical simulation technology to support the training of physicians, nurses, medical students and pharmacists in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic and infectious diseases. A number of disease-specific modules (clinical knowledge bases are under development). The first to be implemented is for HIV (TheraSim CS-HIV).

TheraSim Knowledge bases for individual disease modules comprise clinical data, patient simulation data and best practice guidelines (see figure 1). The clinical knowledge contained is derived from the following sources:

• DHHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) Treatment Guidelines
• Drug Prescribing Information
• Drug Interaction Databases
• Published Clinical Research
• The TheraSim Clinical Advisory Panel

Figure 1: TheraSim CS (Clinical Simulator) system architecture

The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) is implementing TheraSim CS-HIV on a new web- and client-based clinical training simulator as part of its HIV training and outreach educational programs in 34 countries worldwide.