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Book Detail
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Medical Education, Training and Care Delivery in a Virtual World
Kahol, Kanav
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Status: Publication Cancelled Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
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Synopsis:
This book provides a one-stop shop for educators, universities and researchers looking to employ virtual worlds for delivering medical education, training and employ virtual worlds for clinical purposes. The book provides theoretical basis and practical resources for virtual-environment-driven medical education and healthcare. It discusses virtual worlds and their basic characteristics, compares virtual social environments with conventional face-to-face interaction, provides guidance for setting up a virtual world, and discusses issues including the capabilities and suitability of commercial virtual worlds for medical education and healthcare applications, related research efforts, and ethical and financial considerations. Medical education is a source of many struggles, trials, and tribulations. Medical knowledge is expanding rapidly, creating a need for a high volume of skilled medical professionals. Discoveries in genetics, drugs, basic sciences, etc., are producing new technologies and techniques to treat medical conditions. These new developments require medical students and physicians to constantly learn new material. Current educational methods cannot keep pace with the need for high volume and technologically rich medical care that addresses the shortage and regional imbalances regarding the availability of physicians, surgeons, and nurses. The combined effect of reduced training time and increased training requirements is forcing medical education institutions to go beyond conventional means of education delivery. This necessitates the need to look for alternative means that can address these prevailing issues in medical education. A recent addition to the suite of technologies available for remote collaboration and communication are virtual social environments. Virtual environments enable a user to go beyond communication and enable collaboration. This is extremely attractive for medical education; medical practice at its c
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