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Leadership of Integrated Teams in Virtual Environments
Geographically dispersed integrated project teams collaborating in virtual environments face many challenges in successfully completing projects, particularly if the teams are non-homogeneous.

Medical Networking Sites

Hospitals that use Social Networking Sites

Medical people on twitter

Asklepios The Canadian Medical Association site.

Doc2doc BMJ's approach to connecting doctors worldwide.

DoctorsHangout is an exclusive next generation social networking service for Medical Students, Residents and Doctors.

QuizMD - the open collection of practice exam questions created by and for medical students. Test yourself on what your colleagues deem important, and learn by creating questions to test others. Focus your valuable study time on what really matters: clinical decision making.

DrKtgoes2medschool a video blogger about her med school experience

Within3 is the private professional networking site exclusively for health and life science practitioners to find, connect and collaborate with the right colleague, right now.

New Media Medicine is an online Social Network of over 42,000 doctors, medical students and pre-med students. It's like Facebook for medics!

Ozmosis a new community, currently in private beta, created by physicians for physicians. Members have to be verified during the registration process

Sermo, the fastest - growing community created by physicians, for physicians. Here, physicians aggregate observations from their daily practice and then - rapidly and in large numbers - challenge or corroborate each others opinions, accelerating the emergence of trends and new insights on medications, devices and treatments. You can then apply the collective knowledge to achieve better outcomes for your patients. Caution: This company releases data to pharma companies.

Medical Education Evolution is one is my personal favourite because it's small, very international and about my favourite topic - medical education.

Changemakers is collaborating with the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to launch a global search for “nudges” – innovative little pushes — that help people make better decisions regarding their own health and the health of others.

Second Life

Second Life needs to be downloaded to your computer. Do not teleport without a basic orientation or your experience will be meaningless!

Webcina Second Life Guide

Second Life Glossary

Second Life Health wiki lists various sites including patient support sites.

Blogs with information about Second Life Medicine

Health Info Island - Funded by the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network/National Library of Medicine (GMR NN/NLM) through a grant written by Lori Bell, of the Alliance Library System, Illinois, librarians at Health Info Island in Second Life explore the provision of consumer health information services in a virtual environment. The island is home to a consumer health library and a medical library, as well as virtual outposts or displays run by the National Library of Medicine's Special Information Services, contractors for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and our newest building, the Accessibility Center. This center houses another GMR NN/NLM funded project with the aim of encouraging awareness of vision, mobility, learning, and other disabilities. Teleport

Anne Myers Medical Clinic one of the first medical resources in Second Life. Teleport

The Second Health Project was unusual in that it was not explicitly focused on building a presence in the virtual world of Second Life, but rather on using that world to tell a visual story about a unique vision for the near-term future in real life. Along the way, this remarkable effort pushed the limits of avatar creation, animations, machinima, clothing design, modeling — and even traditional building. Teleport

Second Health from Imperial College A health system centred on each patient’s specific needs? Join us in the 3D virtual World of Second Life to explore, discuss and shape a shared vision of the future. The Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London has developed a Virtual Hospital in Second Life that aims to design game-based learning activities for the delivery of virtual patients that can drive experiential, diagnostic, and role-play learning activities supporting patients’ diagnosis, investigation and treatment. Teleport

Palomar West Hospital Teleport

Monash has purchased a closed-access island (not available to the public) in Second Life, a virtual world, available to staff and students at participating universities. The island has been christened Pharmatopia, and as the name suggests, aims to develop a pharmacy education ‘oasis’.

The Birth Unit what we would like the students to do in the birth unit that meets the learning objectives:

• demonstrate an understanding of the role of the midwife in the normal childbirth process;
• demonstrate effective evidence based, midwifery practice guided by a sound knowledge base.

Teleport

Play2Train is a virtual training space in Second Life designed to support Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), Simple Triage Rapid Transportation (START), Risk Communication and Incident Command System (ICS) Training.

Digi S Lab Biomedicine Research Labs is the island created by Digi S Lab in Second Life to recreate a real bio lab environment

Second Nature These islands are now part of the Elucian Islands archipelago, Nature Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishers's expanded home in the virtual world of Second Life. The islands are home to exhibitions, ongoing projects, regular events on a wide range of topics and state-of-the-art buildings dedicated to the communication of new ideas Teleport

University of Saskatchewan site Teleport

Second Life sites without websites

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