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School of Health and Bioscience. Second Life Polyclinic. Claire Duguid Rose Heaney Dr Barbara Pendry. What does it look like?. http://vimeo.com/25349083. Incremental development. Each stage feeding the next . Partners. Sustainability. Podiatry. Critical Mass. Case building. Physio.
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School of Health and Bioscience Second Life Polyclinic Claire Duguid Rose Heaney Dr Barbara Pendry
What does it look like? http://vimeo.com/25349083
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
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
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
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
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
Questions/discussion • Will VWs ever be other than niche? • Labour intensive • Costly • Alternatives? • Collaborations? • Within and across disciplines • Open Simvs Second Life?