Imperial College London Provides Nursing Training via Second Life
I've been looking into nursing education and training available on Second Life. Imperial College London, a sim located on SciLands, has an impressive start providing training to its med students. (It's important to mention that this project was in no way meant to replace real life training. It's just a distance learning tool for those who learn well that way.) The activity takes place in a respiratory ward where students practice basic protocol on four different patients with varying symptoms. Before getting started your avatar must first wash his or her hands (protocol that is just as annoying in a virtual world as in a real one). After reviewing the patient profile and listening to audio of the patient's breathing patterns, there are a number of different tests that can possibly be run. That's actually as far as I got because I have no idea what each of the tests are for, haha. More to come soon!
