Virtual pharmacy clean room

It’s great ! It’s virtual reality for pharmacy students.
Not virtual world in this case. But I hope to see something like that soon in Second Life : a virtual clean room to practice preparations like chemotherapies.

The article : http://www.lafayette-online.com/purdue-news/2009/04/virtual-clean-room-pharmacist-training/

Extract :

The simulator runs in a multiwall immersive environment at the Envision Center and will work on wall-sized panels and portable display systems, too. The equipment employs 3-D glasses and a wireless controller something like a Nintendo Wii’s to put users in the middle of the virtual world being projected and allow them to navigate and manipulate it. Head-tracking capability adjusts the view as a user looks around, or “walks” through, the environment, which is detailed down to the labels on the medicine bottles. The software also has been modified to run on desktop and laptop computers.

The virtual clean room was created from hundreds of digital pictures taken at Clarian Health Partners and Wishard Health Services in Indianapolis, in facilities compliant with USP 797, the federal regulation governing pharmacy clean rooms. The computer-graphics technology students also captured ambient sound and included it in the simulator.

Flying through the virtual pharmacy clean room

A fly-through video created by students at Purdue Universitys Envision Center for Data Perceptualization offers an overall tour of the virtual pharmacy clean room.

Working in the virtual clean room

Steve Abel, assistant dean for clinical programs, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Purdue University, directs a student as she explores the virtual clean room and its features, including some things that shouldnt be there.

Respiratory medicine cases by Imperial College London in Second Life

First of all, the CNN video : http://www.shoppingblog.com/cgi-bin/sblog.pl?sblog=3290911

[Doctors train in 'Second Life' 1:11 A British med school is having students learn by treating virtual patients in the online world 'Second Life'. Source: CNN | Added March 27, 2009]

The Imperial College London Sim : his tower, his conference room, his sandbox and … his hospital

It’s this link for the visist : SLURL http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imperial%20College%20London/150/86/27

First of all, you have to register online :

Pr Martyn Partridge :http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/m.partridge

is always at his desk.

You can search the right diagnosis on 5 different patients.

First wash your hands, ask patients basis information, perform a first diagnosis (differential diagnosis), and next …

perform some tests, new investigations for a final diagnosis :

The results of the investigations of each patient are in dedicated rooms. Here is the Laboratory.

It’s 5 clinical cases :

1. Pneumonia
2. Anticoagulant
3. Asthma
4. Pneumothorax
5. Lung cancer

It’s summarize in the Patient Management Area with some slides about this clinical cases:

A very easy-to-use simulation : you are helped by a reminder (wear as a badge on you at the entry of this hospital) so you can know all the time at which steps you have taken a break.

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Initial announcement :
Researchers pilot virtual clinic to help train doctors [6 march 2009] http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/news/060309_virtualclinic/

References :

• London Medical Students Train in Second Life Virtual Hospital http://www.ihealthbeat.org/Articles/2009/3/30/London-Medical-Students-Train-in-Second-Life-Virtual-Hospital.aspx
• Medical Students Using Second Life For Training http://www.inquisitr.com/20911/medical-students-using-second-life-for-training/
• Massively – Imperial College London lets students play doctor in Second Life http://www.massively.com/2009/03/30/imperial-college-london-lets-students-play-doctor-in-second-life/
• Unique Medical Simulation in Second Life!
  http://scienceroll.com/2008/08/17/unique-medical-simulation-in-second-life
• Can Second Life help teach doctors to treat patients? http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/30/doctors.second.life/index.html

Monolith – a protein rezzer

 

This week-end, Monolith a new molecular rezzer has been presented at the 2009 Virtual World Best Practice in Education Conference.

http://www.iste-community.org/xn/detail/2280708:Event:15394

It look like a well-known black box :

But it’s a rezzer working like show on this slide :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/3388162070/in/set-72157615940384816/

A great work of Erich Bremer (the same name inSL ! – http://www.ebremer.com), Associate Director, Medical Informatics @ School of Medicine, State University at Stony Brook.

But this tool use TOO MANY prims ! It will be better to use it on an opensim !

The website of this tool :
http://secondlife.som.stonybrook.edu

Flux The media of the sim link to : http://www.proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/6tna

 

SLURL :

http://slurl.com/secondlife/SBU%20Medical%20Center/58/26/27

Give me the landmark ! little molecule…

References :

http://slbiology.blogspot.com/2009/01/visit-to-monolith.html

http://piensl.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/monolith-rapid-molecular-visualization-for-second-life/

Best healthcare places in Second Life

Ready ! They are ready : 24 landmarks dedicated to healthcare (and some others to chemistry).

2 others on first floor are for SLoodle (for elearning) and ISI (for more web & SL ressources).

Click on it and each landmark provide the teleport landmark and some information about the place in a notecard.

They are all made in the JoKay Wollongong’s style :

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Go to EAHP exhibition website and click on the ‘Teleport now’ button to visit the place.

To help people to visit, the 12 most important are in a free tour HUD.

NMR spectroscopy game in Second Life

NMR spectroscopy is a great method to identify organic molecules and so most of the therapeutic active compound. Very useful in pharmacy.

The NMR spectrum viewer is a SL spectral viewing tool working on Second Nature sims.

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2008/04/nmr-viewer-in-second-life.html

1O months later, this viewer is combined with the Orac molecule rezzer, and ChemSpider Open Data spectra.

Now it’s a game with 5 rounds: the NMR game !

Goal : Five times to find the right molecule of 5 corresponding NMR spectrum displayed

The game is set up on the American Chemical Society sim.

SLURL : http://slurl.com/secondlife/ACS/245/9/25

I LOVE this game ! It work fine.

 The top 15 lists

Reference : Chemistry activities in Second Life

For all details,  have a look at this great post :

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2009/02/nmr-game-on-second-life.html

Pharmatopia : an international collaboration for an immersive learning simulation for pharmacy and pharmaceutical studies

First of all, the Pharmatopia project is an international collaboration :

• Monash University – Australia, Malaysia, South Africa & Italy.
• University of Queensland – Australia
• UNC University of North Carolina – USA
• Univeristy of Nottingham – UK
• Keele university – UK

Pharmatopia want to be an Immersive Learning Simulation For Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Studies.

Pharmatopia is the name of the first sim builded of three :

• Pharmatopia
• Pharmatopia OS
• Aesclepia

Pharmatopia is actually a closed access island.
The access is only available to member institutions.

The public opening access to the island will come in the future, but
that probably won’t happen until around the middle of 2009.

Under request, you can have a student guest account, that has access to Pharmatopia, but only for 30 days. All the details for this guest access, here.

Pharmatopia is made by 3DI developers :

• Elpis Oh : Scripter, HUD maker, builder
• Gospel Voom : Builder and designer

Presentation of the Pharmatopia project by Dr. Ian Larson, Senior Lecturer

   A CALT podcast : Click to see and download the QT video (.mov) 27,9 Mo 14:37

The main information source :

 

Central area

 

Council Chambers

  

meeting place around the 3D map of the sim.

Amphitheatre

Under the Counsil chambers, a large place with a huge video screen.

Tabletting lab

The most interesting and detailed place of the sim.

Something like the NESIM project (Nursing education simulation) for pharmacy students : an amazing simulation.
Exhibitions and meetings are easy in Second Life but simulation using HUD are a next and higher step !

The webpage of the lab.

The virtual Pharmacy Tabletting laboratory : it’s all about Galenic.

The nine steps of the process

The video is produced by Radio Monash and CALT (CENTRE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING AND TEACHING), Monash University  : all the visit is explained.

Click to download this video (.mp4) 26,25 Mo 7:40

Women’s hospital of Greensboro

Last but not least, a work in progress of UNC is rez on the sim : the hospital of Greensboro.

First rezzed on UNC V : see this Flickr album

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More photos on Flickr

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Ref : Scienceroll

Preferered Family Healthcare

Preferered Family Healthcare is a comprehensive behavioral health non-profit organization established in 1979 providing substance abuse treatment/prevention and mental health services throughout Missouri and San Antonio, Texas. (Website : www.pfh.org )
PFH has been awarded $300,000US for 3 year study using OpenSim on the ReactionGrid.com Microsoft based hosting platform.
The grant will to provide “virtual treatment” to adolescents using virtual world technology in a grid dedicated to counseling remotely.

Source : http://twitter.com/Dr_Manhattan/status/983898167

Exhibits on atomic orbitals

Image via Wikipedia

A video showing four 3D interactive exhibits on :

• atomic orbitals,
• selection rules,
• and absorption spectra.

For more information :
http://slusage.com/chemistry.asp

Pharmacy Education in Second Life

According to TIMESonline, Virtual reality is the latest trend in medicine.

Scientific Research and Medicine are growing in Second Life.

Second Life & Virtual Worlds for Academic Healthcare & Education

It is possible to “play” with virtual patient.

Emerging Technologies in Nursing and Nursing Education

Virtual Nursing Education in Second Life

“This is one of the areas that training for RNs is occurring in Second Life, a virtual world.
Students also apply theory by creating and manipulating 3D objects.
Planned meetings with the numerous support groups are used to increase the students awareness and empathy of those with health issues.
Students also experience real people with different cultures, nationalities, and languages in this virtual world.”

HUD are a great help to personnalize simulations in a global digital world.

Well … after, doctors, and nurses, it’s time to pharmacists to learn and practice in digital world. And the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Pharmacy have started a program.

• Pharmacy Patient Case Studies in Second Life
• Second Life may put Pharmacy students on fast track

The School of Pharmacy installation is on UNC V, but the sim is currently restricted to School of Pharmacy faculty and students.

Uskala Hidayat is the builder of the place.
Many thanks to him to let me access to this sim under construction.

The Family Practice Center is a clinical pharmacy center to educate patient to theirs chronical diseases like diabetes.
The machinima in the building is of a doctor patient interview.
There is also diabetes patient information , diabetes uizz, clinical cases.
More will come with a second level : a smoking cessation clinic.

Nearby, is the hospital with his Neonatal Care Unit. Another build in progress.

More in a Flickr album.

IBM Virtual Healthcare Island : a video

Interactive environment displays IBM’s vision for consumer-driven healthcare