Using images of Second Life and Real Life mixed with texts and a truely amazing music piece, Sorrow & Hope is a machinima featuring Virtual Ability, the winner of the First Linden Prize .

“Where limitations are just stepping stones… to a place with no limitations.” Virtual Ability

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Part 2

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[9:49] Blue Terminal: Hello Daneel Ariantho, thank you for taking the Larynx Anatomy Test (Blue arrow)

[9:49] Blue Terminal: This test will make arrows appear around the Larynx in front of you. Fly around the Larynx, find the arrows of the right color and name the corresponding body part.
[9:49] Blue Terminal: Each arrow has a particle trail which will guide you to it in case you shouldn’t be able to find the arrow.

[9:50] Blue Terminal: Type out your answer normally in the main chat. This test is not case sensitive. You have 5 minutes to answer each question before the test gets reset.
[9:50] Blue Terminal: Are you doing the test for practice or for grading?
[9:50] Daneel Ariantho: /5 practice
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Ok, How many questions out of 10 would you like to answer for this test?
[9:52] Daneel Ariantho: /5 2
[9:52] Blue Terminal: 2 question(s), is that correct?
[9:50] Daneel Ariantho: /5 yes
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Thank you, starting the test…
[9:52] Blue Terminal: Question 3.
[9:53] Daneel Ariantho: /5 hyoid bone
[9:56] Blue Terminal: I’m sorry, your answer was incorrect, the right answer would have been ‘Thyroid Gland‘
[9:56] Blue Terminal: Question 1.
[9:57] Daneel Ariantho: /5 thyroid gland
[9:57] Blue Terminal: I’m sorry, your answer was incorrect, the right answer would have been ‘Hyoid Bone‘
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Larynx Anatomy Test (Blue arrow) end results:
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Out of 2 questions, you answered 0 correctly and 2 incorrectly, scoring 0%
[9:57] Blue Terminal: Thank you for participating, have a nice day.

SLURL : Speech-Language & Hearing Science, Second Earth 7 (60, 113, 44)
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Earth%207/67/100/35

This is virtual medical simulation video in Second Life for RN training at Tacoma Community College by John Miller RN, ADN, BSN, MN (aka JS Vavoom) and MUVErs, LLC, http://muvers.org .

Instructions

Nursing simulation assessing and treating a patient with a chest pain. Oxygen, medications, intravenous fluids, cpr, and defibrillation are performed by avatars.

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.

    Reaction: Chemistry 101 is created exclusively for Aldrich by Madpea Productions in association with Orange Island.

   Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Their biochemical and organic chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high technology manufacturing.

    For more info on events at Sigma-Aldrich in SL, visit http://sialisland.wordpress.com

It is a serious game, an ‘interactive mad science game’ where players travel to lab stations at various locations around Aldrich’s sims, and perform unique experiments.    

To help you perform these experiments, you should have received a HUD, a Chemistry Book.Use this book to collect the materials needed for the experiments, as well as for instruction on the experiments themselves.

     You will have to find the 9 hidden stations and materials yourselves. A notecard provide the 9 SLURL : stations and materials are very close to them.

The goal of the game is to create a firework.

    About MadPea Productions:
    MadPea Productions is devoted to interactive games in Second Life. Their website at http://www.madpea.com to learn more. All players are registered online  and the statistics on Reaction are included in a  Statistics page on the website. http://www.madpea.com/stats_Reaction.php

Go there , to play this game : SLURL

[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

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/

It’s my oral presentation at 14th congress of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists, 25 – 27 March 2009
Website : http://eahpvirtualexpo.net78.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkuLAOzL0zU

A patient simulation in the virtual world of Second Life by MUVErs used in nursing courses.
An update of John Miller’s work.

Muvers website : http://muversllc.blogspot.com/
Twitter : http://twitter.com/MUVErs

PIVOTE (for PREVIEW Immersive Virtual Training Environment) is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded PREVIEW project, where it was used to develop training material for Paramedic students at St George’s Hospital and Kingston University.

Although based on the Medbiquitous Virtual Patient standard the feeling of all involved in the project was that the system could be used for any sort of structured learning in virtual worlds. The result was that JISC have funded the creation of PIVOTE – this open source project.

The key point about PIVOTE is that all the structure and information content of an exercise is stored on the web, not in the virtual world.

This means that it is easy to create, and then edit and maintain, courseware INDEPENDENT OF VIRTUAL WORLD. And since even structure and content are separate you can have the same exercise but with different levels of student information – from loads of help and structure for beginners, to minimal information and structure for assessment purposes.

From here you can download all the code you need to use PIVOTE to run your own courses in virtual worlds. From the location in Second Life you can download a starter set of objects, and the Controller, and you can of course create (and hopefully share) your own.

SLURL

PIVOTE supports users in Second Life (and OpenSim) and on the Web, but it is possible to create controllers for other virtual worlds.

An overview of the PREVIEW project, featuring the newly rebuilt Cedars at Coventry University

All images are from Sheetalkavia’s Flickr

Sources :

• The PIVOTE blog
• The website
• Download (on Google Code)
• The press release