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Virtual Medical School

Virtual Medical School

Written by Bertalan Meskó

Forget those late nights on the wards grappling with real patients to perfect taking a history for the MRCP - medical training is going virtual. Second Life, the online 3D world, is set to become the world’s largest medical training institution and, as Bertalan Meskó reports, it could change the way we view education entirely.

One of the earliest projects is the Ann Myers Medical Center - a virtual medical school - where medical education gets a unique opportunity to find new ways of training medical students. It was created to test the possibilities of virtual training for real world medical and nursing students.

There are dozens of physicians, medical students and animators behind this unique project who pledge their sparetime and money to this idea. AMMC currently has a voluntary staff consisting of consultant specialists, medical students and several nurses.

Interesting piece looking at educational uses of Second Life for Medical Training. The article gives some useful links to other Sims as well, such as Genetics Island.

posted by Netwoman @ 9:10 AM