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Enhancing Clinical Skills: Second Life PolyClinic Development Approach

Explore the incremental development of a Second Life PolyClinic for podiatric medicine education. Learn about the benefits, challenges, and future possibilities for using virtual worlds in student training. Engage in interactive clinical scenarios, assessments, and collaborative learning experiences.

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Enhancing Clinical Skills: Second Life PolyClinic Development Approach

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  1. School of Health and Bioscience Second Life Polyclinic Claire Duguid Rose Heaney Dr Barbara Pendry

  2. What does it look like? http://vimeo.com/25349083

  3. Incremental development Each stage feeding the next Partners Sustainability Podiatry Critical Mass Case building Physio Experience with SL Comms with patient Herbal Resource intensive Early days Technical & usability barriers

  4. Rationale / Drivers • Engaged in other e-learning, natural progression • Students can practice and revisit clinical practice skills away from the University in a realistic environment • Student feedback regarding wanting more contact time within the clinic to practice these skills • Pressures on staff availability for tutorials • Exposure to more diverse range of conditions • Feedback from clinical educators wanting more confidence in student’s skills • Clinical competency, failure to undertake task accurately has serious consequences • Second life supports procedural skills well • Helps to develop clinical reasoning

  5. Podiatric Medicine Plans: • Embed within a module to ensure engagement • Use as a non-staffed tutorial session. Students undertake tasks as a group or individually • Build in assessment via: • Procedural tasks have to be sequential to progress • Video demonstrations and quizzes / calculations to test learning • Possibilities for module assessment to occur in second life • Evaluate

  6. Student/staff experience • Enthusiastic in the main • Tuition on use initially required • Technical barriers on home PCs • ‘Conversation’ with patient problematic • Need more cases • Staff – case development and patient dialogue a complex process

  7. Where next (Herbal)? • Develop more cases • Share with programmes in other universities (as per Plymouth podiatry link) • Develop - a Dispensary - Herb garden • Use for - Tutorials - Staff ‘office hours’ - Social spaces

  8. Questions/discussion • Will VWs ever be other than niche? • Labour intensive • Costly • Alternatives? • Collaborations? • Within and across disciplines • Open Simvs Second Life?

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