What do the Imperial College Medical School, Ann Myers Medical Center, the National Network/National Library of Medicine and the Biomedicine Research Labs have in common? They are all medical education sites located in the virtual environment known as Second Life.




Please join us in a virtual presentation as Dr. Bertalan Meskó takes several members of the University of Saskatchewan on a tour of medical education sites in Second Life, followed by a presentation on how simulated environments might be used in the future in medical education.

Objectives

Upon attending this seminar, the participants will be able to:

1. describe how medical educators are currently using the virtual environment of Second Life
2. describe how Second Life can be used as a virtual presentation tool
   
3. predict how simulated environments might be used in the future
4. discuss the arguments for and against using virtual simulations in medical education.

Presenter

Dr. Bertalan Meskó is a medical resident about to graduate from the University of Debrecen, Medical School and Health Science Center in Hungary. He writes the award-winning medical blog, Scienceroll, which has over 1,000,000 readers and the recently launched Webcina, home of PeRSSonalized Medicine. His previous presentations include:

• the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 16-17 (Long Beach, CA; January, 2008 and January, 2009)
• the University of Yale, School of Medicine (February, 2008)
• the clinics of Greenwich (February, 2008)
• the centre of World Health Organization (July, 2008)
• the 20th International Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology in Vienna, Austria (August, 2008)
• the Medicine 2.0 Congress in Toronto, Canada (September, 2008)
  

He thinks medical education and communication between physicians and patients will be revolutionized with the tools and services of web 2.0. He is a medical blogger, a microblogger, a manager of medical projects in Wikipedia and an organizer of scientific events in Second Life, the virtual world. He thinks medical professionals of the 21st century have to be ready to meet the expectations of e-patients.

Sponsors

This session is co-sponsored by Educational Support and Development, Faculty Affairs, Continuing Medical Education and ITU.

Approved for MAINPRO-MI study credits on behalf of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by Continuing Professional Learning, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.