Second Life Medical Education?!?!?

[DrWookie]

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Check this news article out on CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/doctors.second.life/index.html

What do you guys think? I'm sure some people in med school are still addicted to video games so this might help 😀

 

[silverlining1]

LoL, interesting. I suppose it could be good to help reinforce important things that people may forget to do (like the handwashing).

 

[DrWookie]

Ya but I don't know how useful it would be to practice washing my hands in a video game....I don't really know if the things I do in the game would necessarily translate into real life.

 

[silverlining1]

Not the act of how to wash your hands - but it's something that's often forgotten (read Atul Gawande's books)... so being forced to do it in a video game (you can't see your patient until you wash your hands) could help remind you for real life.

 

[Siverhideo1985]

Looks fun at least...I'd play the game, haha

 

[45408]

I wouldn't play it. When I play video games, I prefer to slam my Lamborghini into the Ferrari next to me and then gun it around the curve at 150mph. Or fire a perfectly aimed grenade launcher across the map at that stupid spawn camper, or save the city Jacinto as Marcus Fenix, a guy who must weigh at least 300 pounds.

Why would I play video games to do the same thing I do all day?

 

[nikemed]

Let the outsourcing begin...

 

[Law2Doc]

Not the act of how to wash your hands - but it's something that's often forgotten (read Atul Gawande's books)... so being forced to do it in a video game (you can't see your patient until you wash your hands) could help remind you for real life.

Study upon study show that the ONLY people who regularly wash their hands in a hospital are the med students, so I think this isn't the right stage to try and reinforce this.

 

[silverlining1]

Study upon study show that the ONLY people who regularly wash their hands in a hospital are the med students, so I think this isn't the right stage to try and reinforce this.

Interesting!

 

[Conky]

Reality sucks.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play

 

[nlax30]

Reality sucks.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play

HAHA... I love the Onion. Their videos are so well done and border on the "possible" that you can usually fool someone with a report on there if they aren't familiar with what The Onion is.

 

[nlax30]

This is simply a product of a group of people (individuals or a company) that want to make a few bucks. This is really nothing more than a person developing some type of technology that they hope will catch on to their targted market and make bank. That is all it really comes down to. NEVER, and I mean NEVER replace a real patient with a computer screen.

Does everyone think it would be easier to recognize a muscle in a patient during surgery after learning it on a computer screen or a real cadaver? I have images of a virtual cadaver and it would never be good enough to replace the real patient....you need to train the eyes for the real thing, not the computer screen.

Well nothing is going to replace a real patient, but varying types of simulation training is being integrated into all sort of fields (medical, military/law enforcement, etc....)

While I'm not sure if 2nd Life is the vehicle for that, I could see this sort of concept being applied towards CME and even during medical school and/or residency training for certain things.