News Report 5
“The Wired Campus”, The Chronicles of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Virtual-Medical-Training-Comes/7277
Erica R. Hendry
Virtual online medical training is something that has been around. Now of days it as upgraded but still has some of the same features it used to have. The Second Life application has changed how it works so that now trainees and graduates can get more of a real life situation, and the chance to discuss their decision with doctors and other professors.
For the looks of it there isn’t to many boundaries when using Second Life. Sooner than later there will be more application like this just for everyday use in the classroom. Then again there might not be a classroom to go to anymore. With the Second Life you create an avatar to be about of this on-line world. This sort of reminds me of the XBOX 360 gaming console. You create an avatar to join million online to network and communicate with.
One key benefit of training like this is the decrease in the cost of doing it. For instance no actual people are hurt or harmed in the training, less man hours used, and give you a legit second chance to get second opinion or go over a mistake if one ever happens. All this process of the Second life is already being used at universities across the nation.
No one ever thought that technology would advice this for that medical students would be doing training online. There are some people that a not sold on the idea and would things the more traditional way of training. In all I don’t think the training will eventually go all the way online. There still are some issues that should be done in person for example running real test or finding cures for certain diseases.
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