Mallory Phillips
September 30, 2009
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Virtual-Medical-Training-Comes/7277
Virtual Medical Training Comes to Second Life
By: Erica Hendry—The Chronicle of Higher Education
Virtual medical training is nothing new; CD-ROMs and other interactive programs have been used for years. Now, some universities are beginning to use Second Life to help train nurses. Second Life allows students to use real life participants, allows access to professors, and even has people volunteer to be patients. Students can do many things such as, interact with doctors, patients, order tests, make diagnoses, and recommend treatment. One professor has made a Heart Murmur Sim that uses real cardiac sounds to train students how to listen to someone’s chest. Another program that has been created is the Nursing Education Simulation. Students wear headsets with displays monitor and use defibrillators, IV’s, and medication to treat computer patients with certain symptoms. This style of learning offers pretty good resources with lower costs than actual physical training.
The reason I chose this article is because we were just talking about Second Life the other day in class. I think that this style of learning will be very effective. It offers a semi “hands on” experience without actually being in a hospital. I think that doing it this way is safer because if these students mess up, there is no negative effect on the patient.
No comments:
Post a Comment