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The Use of Virtual Worlds in Chiropractic Education: Feasible or Foolish?
Glori Hinck, RD, MS, DCAssociate Professor Northwestern Health Sciences UniversityBloomington, MN USA
Project Team: Jeremy Thompson, BSLynne Hvidsten, DC, MBAMary Berg, MA
What is a virtual world?
2D or 3D computer-based simulated enviromment
Populated by avatars
Text and/or chat communication
Second Life
Most commonly used for educational purposes
Supports significant health care education presence
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2007_Horizon_Report.pdf
“… virtual learning spaces will impact higher education and be adopted on a wide
scale basis within the next two to three years….
Second Life: Pharmacy education
UNC-Chapel Hill Virtual patient interviews
http://its.unc.edu/InsideITS/insideitsnews/CCM1_010995 5-30-09
Second Life: Medical education
Indiana University School of Medicine
Second Life: Nursing education
University of Auckland Postpartum simulation scenario
Second Life: Dentistry education
Texas A&M University of
Maryland
Second Life: Psychiatry
UC-Davis
Second Life in Medical & Health Education
Second Life: Chiropractic education?
A review of the literature and the Web finds no reference to utilizing Second Life as part of chiropractic education
Second Life: Chiropractic?
The Use of Virtual Worlds in Chiropractic Education: Feasible or Foolish?
Focus Group Students
Intrigued Concerns re:
time/technology Suggested
elective option for clinical education hours
NWHSU Second Life Project
Virtual Interview with Geriatric Patient
Winter 2010 5 students (T8) Avatar created
for 72 year-old real-world patient
Students created own avatars
Virtual Interview with Geriatric Patient
Met in virtual clinic
Interview using voice chat
Follow-up Survey Monkey
Moodle site
Moodle Patient
intake forms
Instructions Second Life
User Manual
Common Themes…..
Real time chat valuable
“…I could hear his voice and he responded to questions in a way that was not just a script”
Gained insight regarding the challenges in taking a history from a geriatric patient, “They tend to jump around…they also have a lot of other problems besides the primary complaint they are seeing you for.”
Challenges….
Primary Problem: Technical issues Software is free but must be downloaded Hardware requirements High-speed internet IT support SOUND!!! University firewalls **Significant time investment by
participants to learn how to navigate and interact within world
Challenges….
“Not being able to see the person, inspecting them, watching for visual cues”
Would rather interact with a patient in the real world.
These students had difficulty suspending disbelief enough to truly see the patient behind the avatar, and were frustrated by the inability to communicate through body language
Challenges….
The nature of chiropractic itself…
Feasible?
Image cc- xgray
Should chiropractic educators use virtual world technology?
Imperial College Virtual Hospital
Follow the trends?
Photo cc- treeday77
Millennial demand?
Recommendations
Continue to explore virtual chiropractic education Technology improving rapidly
Think creatively X-ray positioning, student dialogues with disability
groups, integrated clinical experiences
Dr. Glori HinckGlorious Guisse
Thank you!See you in Second Life?
Second Life
Second Life (http://secondlife.com/ Most popular virtual world platform for
education Computer/web- based simulated multi-
media environment 3-D social network
Users interact via avatars Voice chat/text chat/instant messaging
Integrate with Moodle via SLOODLE Boulos, M.N., Hetherington, L., & Wheeler, S. 2007. Second Life: an
overview of the potential of 3-D virtual worlds in medical & health education. Health Information and Libraries Journal. 24. 233-245.
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