It gives idea how internet can e used as a useful tool for learning in medical field

1. Virtual World Capabilities
For Medical Education
By Dr. Sameh Ahmad Abdel-Ghany
Vice director of e-learning unit - Mansura Faculty of Medicine

2. Agenda
1
Virtual Environments
2
Virtual Hosiltal and clinic
3
Virtual reasrch
4
Virtual Lab
5
Virtual Classroom
6
Virtual Museum
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Virtual Medical books

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4. Virtual
Environment
•Definition
is a place containing things that
can be manipulated and people

5. Types of virtual
environments
• 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

6. Shared spaces technologies
Aim to create
distributed electronic
environments

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

8. Multi-user chat (MUC) systems
Chat systems that allow
text, visula and vocal
communucation.

9. Virtual reality
a
form of humancomputer interaction in
which a real or imaginary
environment is simulated
and users interact with
and manipulate that
world.
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10. 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.)

11. 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

12. Immersive virtual reality
An artificial reality that
projects you into a 3D
space generated by the
computer.
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13. Virtual world system for
medical process
 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.

14. Benefits of virtual
world for Medicine
1
solving today’s problems and designing solutions for the
challenges in tomorrow’s healthcare and life sciences arena.
2
improve patient safety, offer immersive therapy and rehabilitation,
and increase collaboration, leading to a reduction in healthcare
costs
3
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.

15. Virtual training for healthcare and
medical applications
Medical procedures training
Drug and medical device education
Therapy and rehabilitation
Emergency response
Meetings and events
Public health

16. Virtual Hospital
enables hospitals and
healthcare organizations to
train for a range of skills
and improve teamwork and
communications through
online collaboration

17. Benefits of virtual hospital
1) Increased effectiveness in nurse and doctor training
2) Reduced medical errors
3) 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
.

18. ContBenefits 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
.

19. Virtual Clinic
The Minnesota Virtual Clinic is a webbased 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.

20. Benefits of virtual clinic
1) Simulated Medical Records for Virtual
Patients— represent a variety of
conditions and cultural backgrounds.
2) Reveals Information in Real Time
3) Teaching Points and Explanations
4) Familiarizes Students with Electronic
Medical Records—teaches students
basic security practices and how to use
electronic medical records for patient
care.

21. Virtual Clinical Case
We make a scenario for clinical
case and student is allowed to
deal with case to solve the
problem

23. 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/e
ndotracheal_intubation/endotracheal_intubation.html)

24. 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)

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

27. Medical Games
2D games
Games
that
allow teaching
and
interactivity to
facilitate
learning
Examples
1-
Blood
typing
(http://www.nobelprize.org/education
al/medicine/landsteiner/indexoldgame.html)
2- cardiology
(http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/vlabs/ca
rdiology/index.html)
3-ECG
(http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/med
icine/ecg/ecg.html)

33. Medical Games
3D games
1
2
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.
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.
Examples
1- virtual hospital
(http://www.powerofresearch.eu/Default.as
px)
(http://www.alexmed.edu.eg/virtual)
2- research center
(http://www.powerofresearch.eu/Defa
ult.aspx)

38. Virtual Lab
Definition
an 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)

42. 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/)

44. Virtual text
 Medical
textbooks
presented in
electronic form
e.g. google books
 Articles, notes etc..
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45. Virtual Museum
(http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/museum/index.html)

47. Virtual search engines
Non specific e.g. Google – Yahoo
For medical articles e.g. Pubmed , Highwire

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

51. THANK YOU!