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Checking up on virtual patients

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Caren B. Les, [email protected]

As part of a research project on game-based learning, third-year medical students at Imperial College London have practiced diagnosing virtual patients in a respiratory ward within the Web-based 3-D simulated world of Second Life. They have gone through the process of logging in to the world, creating their avatar persona and navigating it to reach the specially designed virtual hospital. There, at the reception area, the students-as-avatars begin their training in protocols for the diagnoses of patients with respiratory illnesses. Having picked up their assignment, they go to the...Read full article

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    Published: May 2009
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