By Dr. Sameh Ahmad Abdel-GhanyVice director of e-learning unit - Mansura Faculty of Medicine

Virtual World Capabilities For Medical Education

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Virtual Environments

Virtual Medical books

Virtual reasrch

Virtual Classroom

Virtual Hosiltal and clinic

Virtual Lab

Virtual Museum

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• Definitionis a place containing things that can be manipulated and people

Virtual Environment

• Shared spaces• Text-based virtual reality• Some Multi-user chat (MUC) systems• Multi-user games • Multi-user 2D & 3D interactive environments • Immersive 3D environments• Virtual reality• Virtual habitat• Mixed reality

Types of virtual environments

Shared spaces technologies

Aim to create distributed electronic environments

Text-based virtual reality

a form of virtual habitats or virtual environments, e.g. a place where people be and do things on-line.

Multi-user chat (MUC) systems

Chat systems that allow text, visula and vocal communucation.

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Virtual reality

a form of human-computer interaction in which a real or imaginary environment is simulated and users interact with and manipulate that world.

2D Interactive environments

a form of virtual environment and have a figurative appearance.

Most often, avatars talk in bubbles (like in a comic strip). There can be interactive objects and also multimedia imports (sound, movies, etc.)

3D Interactive environments

often referred to as virtual reality or interactive 3D and have a figurative appearance. Much like our own world, this type of world allows interaction with other (networked) beings as well as manipulation of objects

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Immersive virtual reality

An artificial reality that projects you into a 3D space generated by the computer.

In the virtual world, you can simulate everything if you have the proper animation for the procedure. For example, I can take a blood sample if I have an animation created for this purpose.

Virtual world system for medical process

Benefits of virtual world for Medicine

solving today’s problems and designing solutions for the challenges in tomorrow’s healthcare and life sciences arena.

improve patient safety, offer immersive therapy and rehabilitation, and increase collaboration, leading to a reduction in healthcare costs

reduces medical errors through improved communication and team skills, expands the training opportunities available to a wider spectrum of care-givers, and reaches out to consumers with a branded virtual world experience.

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Medical procedures trainingDrug and medical device educationTherapy and rehabilitationEmergency responseMeetings and eventsPublic health

Virtual training for healthcare and medical applications

Virtual Hospital

enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to train for a range of skills and improve teamwork and communications through online collaboration

1) Increased effectiveness in nurse and doctor training2) Reduced medical errors3) Use of sophisticated, physiological medical models

that calculate the conditions, behaviors, and responses of patient avatars

4) Improved training of drug sales personnel through realistic 3D doctor visits and detailing of medical product sales and service personnel around 3D products

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Benefits of virtual hospital

5) Sharing of best practices among global teams of medical, professional and sales personnel.

6) Delivery of immersive behavior therapy and rehabilitation

7) Expanded training opportunities to a wider spectrum of caregivers and outreach programs

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Cont-Benefits of virtual hospital

The Minnesota Virtual Clinic is a web-based medical learning tool that simulates a weeklong view of activities in a medical office where students participate in the ongoing care of a group of virtual patients.

Virtual Clinic

1) Simulated Medical Records for Virtual Patients— represent a variety of conditions and cultural backgrounds.

2) Reveals Information in Real Time3) Teaching Points and Explanations4) Familiarizes Students with Electronic

Medical Records—teaches students basic security practices and how to use electronic medical records for patient care.

Benefits of virtual clinic

Virtual Clinical Case

We make a scenario for clinical case and student is allowed to deal with case to solve the problem

Virtual Environment for Endotracheal intubation Training

This project seeks to provide a means for practicing and developing skills required for endotracheal intubation training.

(http://www.vrlab.buffalo.edu/projects_group_medical/endotracheal_intubation/endotracheal_intubation.html)

Virtual Urology

Doctor can simulate the location of stone in different part of the of the kidney & ureters.

Doctor can simulate the live operating system of Ureteroscope.

Doctor can simulate the live operation of stone removal from ureter with help of Ureteroscope.

(http://www.labonlaptop.com)

Ann Myers Virtual Medical Center

The Ann Myers Medical Center provides a fantastic project for medical students.

Medical Games

1- Blood typing (http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/landsteiner/index-oldgame.html)

2- cardiology(http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/cardiology/index.html)

3-ECG(http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/ecg/ecg.html)

Examples

Games that allow teaching and interactivity to facilitate learning

2D games

Medical Games

1- virtual hospital(http://www.powerofresearch.eu/Default.aspx) (http://www.alexmed.edu.eg/virtual)

2- research center(http://www.powerofresearch.eu/Default.aspx)

Examples

The game features more than 12 different illnesses, 120 different patients, 11 different rooms, many different diagnosis methods such as x-ray, CT, lab tests, etc.

3D games

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players can engage in health research projects, by performing microscopy, protein isolation and DNA experiments, publishing research results, participating in conferences, managing high tech equipment and staff or request funding – all tasks of real researchers. 

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Definitionan interactive environment for creating and conducting simulated experiments: a playground for experimentation

Example:Virtual lab for pharmacology

Virtual lab for anatomy and physiology(http://www.primalonlinelearning.com/anatomyandphysiologydemo.aspx)

Virtual Lab

Virtual Classroom

refers to instruction in a learning environment where teacher and student are separated by time or space, or both, and the teacher provides course content through course management applications, multimedia resources, the Internet, video-conferencing, etc

(http://www.wiziq.com/)

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Virtual text

Medical textbooks presented in electronic form

e.g. google books

Articles, notes etc..

(http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/museum/index.html)

Virtual Museum

Non specific e.g. Google – Yahoo

For medical articles e.g. Pubmed , Highwire

Virtual search engines

Images & diagrams(2D-3D) Photos Videos e.g You-Tube Animations e.g flash

Virtual illustartion

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