Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life! August 17, 2008
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health, Health 2.0, Hospital, Innovation, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Virtuality, Web 2.0.trackback
We organize medical exercises and meetings at the Ann Myers Medical Center in Second Life. Now the e-Learning Faculty of Imperial College London created a spectacular and useful Second Life tool in medical education. Here are some screenshots that can describe what the learning process looks like.
- After teleporting to their virtual hospital, at the reception, you have to ask permission to see a patient.
- Wash your hands or you cannot even touch the patient.
- Find the room of that particular patient you got access to.
- Check the patient’s profile (history) through a text file.
- If you answer the test question regarding differential diagnosis, you can purchase investigations (somewhy you have to pay for it).
- I mean with real money. While it’s not the best way to educate students, I believe they decided not to provide free medical content because of privacy issues, and maybe that way they can exclude non-experts:
- You can also find many educational slides and images there.
To sum it up, this is an extremely useful application for medical students who would like to learn and study without borders.
A video may describe it better:
Further reading:
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Dear Bertalan,
Good to know of the unique simulation on second life.
I work on the editorial team of eHEALTH magazine (www.ehealthonline.org). We cover technology applications in healthcare and I would be obliged if you would write an article for us on the various uses of the web 2.0 experience for healthcare; specifically drawing on this experiment and others if there may be more.
Please mail me on susan@ehealthonline.org for further discussion on the same.
If you wish you may nominate another individual to write for us.
Thanks and regards,
Susan
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