Sunday, May 04, 2008

Use of Second Life by University of Kansas Medical Center

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