I attended an interesting day of presentations and workshops at the University of Southampton today…

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Presentations from the event

Ruth Lewis from the HSC Clinical Skills team, myself and Mark Shufflebottom, Lecturer in Interactive Design and researcher in IPE, have just completed work on an innovative virtual learning environment for use in medical training. The project, a collaboration between the School of Heath and Social Care and NHS South West, was one of three HSC e-learning initiatives granted funding during 2007. Mark worked with myself and Ruth to create a web-based virtual simulation of an infection control scenario – an interactive environment allowing interprofessional education for pre-qualified and qualified staff and letting learners engage with the simulation, anytime, anyplace, anywhere……

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Maggi Savin-Baden is turning her attention to medical students’ training in Second Life after a JISC funding award. She says: “One of the biggest problems facing medical education is getting realistic situations for students to learn in. There are increasing limits on where you can place students and what students are allowed to do, which is why we’re designing virtual patients.”

Source : Times Higher Online

I was lucky enough to be invited to a stimulating debate today discussing issues around the impact of Second Life on teaching and learning. Andy Powell (Art Fossett) blogs about the event in more detail…..

The Patient Voices programme aims to capture some of the unwritten and unspoken stories of ordinary people so that those who devise and implement strategy, as well as clinicians directly involved in care, may carry out their duties in a more informed and compassionate manner.

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Source : Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre E-Bulletin

NHS Choices videos are now available to patients via YouTube….

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Source : Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre E-Bulletin

How Nine Inch Nails and others are making use of ARG (alternate reality games) made by 42 entertainment and other companies….this would be great in health education (but costly)

Source : Wired

FATWORLD (first mentioned in 2007) constructs a small-scale society in which players decide what to eat, how much to exercise, what foods should be sold and what regulations should be imposed to determine their own health and that of their community. The game’s goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to exercise, but to demonstrate the complex, interwoven relationships between nutrition, obesity and social factors like budgets, the physical environment, food subsidies and government policy. FATWORLD is a game for adults and teens, but it can also serve as a starting point for discussions with children about nutrition, health and socioeconomics.

Source : Games For Health

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Through the CSI, a project between the University of Auckland (UofA) and ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) Korea to advance care for the aged and disabled day-to-day services is currently being developed….

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Source : SLHealth List

A lack of solace in one’s home environment caused by the impact of negative environmental change. Dr Albrecht described solastalgia as the “homesickness you have when you are still at home”.

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Source : Wired