Particularly for those new to using virtual worlds for educational purposes, David Antonacci and Nellie Modaress from the University of Kansas Medical Center have written a nice introductory overview. It includes a reference to their use of SL role play to provide medical students with practice in physician/patient encounters together with sample video in which they use text chat to simulate the dialogue between the health care team and a patient and his wife. This is very similar to the work that we are doing at the Second Life Institute for Clinician Education (see http://www.SLICE2.com).
Here are links to the article and to the physician/patient video.
Article: http://www.editlib.org/index.cfm/files/paper_24253.pdf?fuseaction=Reader.DownloadFullText&paper_id=24253
Physician/Patient Video: http://www2.kumc.edu/ir/tlt/sl/SLPres-RolePlay.wmv
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Use of Second Life by University of Kansas Medical Center
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