herts blu conference presentation 170610
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UEL virtual patient on Second LifeTRANSCRIPT
Rose Heaney Learning Technology Advisor
Jo Dawes Senior Lecturer, Physiotherapy
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Implementing a Manageable Second Life® Virtual Patient
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School of Health and BioscienceUniversity of East London
Overview of presentation
UEL Context Why Second Life? The Virtual Patient Manageability Evaluation Future Conclusions
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Context
Healthcare programmes at UEL Podiatry Physiotherapy Herbal Medicine Acupuncture
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Herbal Medicine
Plant and medical sciences– Historically the right to primary diagnosis
Blended delivery – on campus for seminars & clinical training (500
hours) in Herbal Medicine clinic– home learning with on-line support for academic
component Students mostly p/t, mature, female, geographically
dispersed Staff mixture of p/t practitioners and UEL bioscience
staff
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Physiotherapy
Professional programme entitling graduates to become HPC registered Chartered Physiotherapists.
Combination of campus based and practice based learning.
Case based learning part of curriculum Cases presented as paper exercises.
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Common Issues
Difficult to recreate real life clinical experiences for students to learn from in the class room setting
Limited access to:– Real patients– Diverse range of conditions
Shortage of respiratory based clinical placements for the undergraduates
Safety – adequate preparation for meeting critically ill patients
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Possible Solutions
lifelike
simulations
PBL scenarios
interactive
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Second Life®
3D virtual world created by its residents who interact through avatars
Virtual World (VW) definition:A computer-generated display that allows or compels the user (or users) to have a sense of being present in an environment other than the one they are actually in, and to interact with that environment (Schroeder 1996, 2008)
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Technology spectrum
• Manageability – a key challengeR
VLE SL
Inspiration for Project
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UEL Virtual Lab
UEL Virtual Lab
Imperial Respiratory
Ward
Imperial Respiratory
Ward
St. George’s paramedic scenarios
St. George’s paramedic scenarios
Heart Murmur Sim
Heart Murmur Sim
SL Polyclinic
UEL HABitat island– Virtual Lab– Crime Scene House– Social space
Cash injection to develop along with other facilities (external developer)
Now maintained in-house
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http://vfc.uelconnect.org.uk/users/choong/output/5ae3a0a12.flv
Manageability (& Sustainability)
Same virtual patient model for physiotherapy and herbal medicine (and any other area e.g. podiatry)
Web based editor (connected to a database) where staff can add & modify textual case data
Reusable generic components – equipment and ward layouts, patient types, images, multimedia resources
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Phase 1 Manageability
Using simple web editor academic can: add patient dialogue (trigger words & responses) textual info for all items:
– Chart– Notes– Test results– Xray notes etc.
add / maintain quizzes (including images)
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Phase 2 Manageability
Academics could learn to do SL side work:
Connecting media to hotspots on patient Manipulating patient appearance and bay layout
using predefined patient sets in inventory Building & scripting will remain the preserve of
specialist but once infrastructure and library of reusable resources in place the need for this is minimised
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Student / staff experience - Herbal
11 in pilot (all levels), but others have also used it
Enthusiastic in the main– Surveys during orientation + online discussion
forum, reflective journals, focus groups Need more cases ‘Conversation’ with patient problematic Technical barriers on home PCs Staff – case development is not trivial
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Where next – Herbal?
More cases …differentiation Case building by experienced students A more holistic learning environment
(distance learners):– Dispensary– Herb garden– Tutorials– Staff ‘office hours’– Social spaces
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Student / Staff experience - Physio
Early phase of a qualitative study: to consider usability and acceptability
19 students volunteered to try SL out. Anecdote post orientation - enthusiasm and
eagerness Data collection: semi-structured interviews
with external researcher and “contextual analysis” of usability
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Where next - Physio?
This depends on outcome of study, but…
SL could become part of module teaching Use for preparation for clinical placement Use for revision Case building could be used as a learning tool
for more senior students
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However we need to .....
• Build a library of cases
• Develop patient dialogue
• “Admit” different patients to our clinic depending on cohort
Where next – more disciplines?
Podiatry in pipeline Visits by students of other institutions Collaborative ventures with other
institutions Inter disciplinary activities e.g. sputum
sample going to lab Prospective students
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Conclusions
Qualified success Manageability and sustainability key to
future developments Challenges cannot be ignored Collaborative potential
− Internally – shared experience of staff and students from different disciplines
− Externally with other institutions
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