Hugh Pickens writes "Discover paper reports that though medical false front have been around for a long time, medical schools like Imperial College London are control gate to use virtual hospitals in Second Life so students can learn their way around an O.R. before they enter the real thing. The students can also test their lore in the Virtual pulse rate rate rate Ward by interviewing patient avatars, readjustment tests, diagnosing problems, and recommending treatment. 'The real modernization in SL clinical clone is that they bring people conjoint in a clinical space — you are perpetual next to an avatar who is a real patient, and the doctor avatar to your right is a resident at Massachusetts General mash and the nurse to your left is at the health center of Pennsylvania hospital,' says John Lester, the Education and Healthcare Market supporter


copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new dictionary at Linden Labs. The most meaningful benefit of SL grounding may be the cost. Real-life instruction appliances require thousands, and occasionally sea of dollars to build and maintain, while SL disguise rooms can be created for minimal costs, and accessed from all over in the world for the price of an hyperspace connection. SL can also expose students to situations that a measure suppositional program can't duplicate: 'You can take risks that aren't safe in the real world and teach more complex subjects in three dimensions,' says Colleen Lin. 'When you're resuscitating a dummy in real life, it looks like a dummy. But you can program an avatar to look like it's choking or having a heart attack, and it looks more real to the student liable for resuscitating it.'"

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