E-Learning 2.0

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Web 2.0 Assisted Teaching

Colleges and Universities around the world are ditching the traditional Blackboard and utilizing Web 2.0 for interactive classroom learning. Second Life is becoming a cost efficient trend among medical schools.

Virtual Hospital Tour

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Medical Device Training

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Taking A Patient History

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How Do You Feel About Medical Students, Nurses and Doctors Using Second Life For Medical Training and Continuing Education Credits?




More Information About Second Life Use In Medical Education

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR): MMVR stimulates singular interactions among developers and end-users. It promotes unorthodox problem-solving as the complement to rigorous scientific methodology. Technology pioneers have found it an encouraging environment for assessing new work. Experienced researchers interact with tomorrow's leaders in the field, guiding future progress. At MMVR, a shared language and vision evolve, enabling more intelligent solutions to healthcare challenges.

Second Health: The Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology at Imperial College London created a virtual hospital in the 3D virtual world of Second Life and a series of ‘machinima’ documentary films to describe what healthcare of the future could look like. This is an ongoing experimental, innovative and efficient means of communicating complex healthcare messages as well as illustrating what healthcare of the future could look like.

Second Life Continuing Medical Education Pilot: Boston University School of Medicine hosted its first ever Continuing Medical Education (CME) event in the virtual world of Second Life. Practicing physicians in the U.S. regularly update and enhance their knowledge and skills by taking supplementary courses and workshops.

Second Life For Medical Education: Several universities worldwide are grappling with the challenges of medical education in the context of reduced access to preoperative patients. Educational tools that offer engaging modes of interaction were identified as absolute necessary to attract not only candidates to surgical training programs, but students to medical programs in general.

Medical Education In Second Life: It Works: The Journal of Medical Internet Research has published a study on the outcomes of a a pilot postgraduate medical education program at the Boston University School of Medicine presence in Second Life.


Submitted by Cullen McManus