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04.15.10Healthcare Facilities Benefit from Virtual TrainingVirtual worlds provide significant benefits for medical training according to the Wall Street Journal which has a well-reported and detail-rich story about the benefits of virtual training to medical facilities. Delving into the training spaces in Second Life held by Stanford University, the University of Michigan and elsewhere, where "participants can build their own virtual clinics and stage just about any training drill they can imagine," the article reveals some of the enormous benefits that online training offers these facilities. Included among these, of course, is cost savings: for instance, computerized mannequins, which can cost $65K and have to ...
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10.30.08Medical Education in Second Life: Pros and ConsOne of the nascent professional spheres in Second Life is medicine and medical care. While nothing can truly replace the physical doctor-patient relationship, there is room for growth in virtual worlds for the medical community. Walter van den Broek, a Dutch psychiatrist who blogs as Dr. Shock, recently wrote a post weighing the strengths and weaknesses of virtual worlds for the medical community. He writes that virtual worlds "may serve as an adjunct or pre- or post-learning tool" instead of replacing the interaction mentioned above. As for strengths, van den Broek finds at least eleven. The major advantages he cites include the ...
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