Med students get training In Second Life hospitals

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"Discover Magazine reports that although medical simulations have been around for a long time, medical schools like Imperial College London are starting to use virtual hospitals in Second Life so students can learn their way around an O.R. before they enter the real thing. The students can also test their knowledge in the Virtual Respiratory Ward by interviewing patient avatars, ordering tests, diagnosing problems, and recommending treatment. 'The real innovation in SL clinical simulations is that they bring people together in a clinical space — you are standing next to an avatar who is a real patient, and the doctor avatar to your right is a resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and the nurse to your left is at the University of Pennsylvania hospital,' says John Lester, the Education and Healthcare Market Developer at Linden Labs. The most significant benefit of SL training may be the cost. Real-life training facilities require thousands, and sometimes millions of dollars to build and maintain, while SL simulation rooms can be created for minimal costs, and accessed from anywhere in the world for the price of an internet connection. SL can also expose students to situations that a standard academic program can't duplicate: 'You can take risks that aren't safe in the real world and teach more complex subjects in three dimensions,' says Colleen Lin. 'When you're resuscitating a dummy in real life, it looks like a dummy. But you can program an avatar to look like it's choking or having a heart attack, and it looks more real to the student responsible for resuscitating it.'"
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  • added July 19, 2009

9 comments // Med students get training In Second Life hospitals

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    now i really want to join 2ed life WOWWWWWWWW

    9reentea3va
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    I really don't see how that would work but ok.

    nextweektuesday
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    wow... They are just "practicing" and I don't think most of them get it right for all their training. The nurses do all the work in training hospitals and American doctors are many times simply focused on drugging the symptoms while ignoring the illness.

    lol... American TV always shows the dedicated doctors wrenching their brains for ideas on how to make people well. From what I have experienced our medical system is the exact opposite. Making people dolls on a game might be fun but it isn't going to change the fact that Western Medicine isn't comprehensive - it is just going to distance the doctor more from the practice. I guess if they're taking shots in the dark, maybe it's better to do it in a game, anyway. :- S

    lol, What if we r all just SIMS? ;)

    Denica_Cassandra
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    *face palm*

    EmperorThan
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    no it wouldn't-though im just amazed @ how 2ed life is becoming an everyday thing or name in this world-

    9reentea3va
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    So how do you get to be the senator of the world?

    Quiggles
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    I can't wait to be laying in the operating room and hear "Well what did you do in second life?"

    cda0827
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    I'm not looking forward to using 2nd life when I'm in med school.

    TimothyF
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    so cool-you could be anything there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANYTHING and ANYONE! people actually get famous on 2edlife

    9reentea3va
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