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A call to ACTION in e-Learning

Medical education is going to be exciting, rewarding, achievable, but the degrees of effective failure in applying ICT to education must be questioned, says Professor Ronald Harden from the University of Dundee, Scotland.

ICVP 2010 Rough Guide to Web 2.0: Part Two

During the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients and MedBiquitous Annual Conference pre-conference workshop on Web 2.0 in medical education, some interesting statistics were raised: Social networks are the 4th most popular online activity ahead of personal email, shopping online and searching for information (Neilsen Online). There are approximately 600 Tweets per second on Twitter. […]

Medbiquitous: Building Frameworks for Collaboration

By Supriya Krishnan and Sian Claire Owen Peter Greene, Executive Director, MedBiquitous, United States addressed the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients and MedBiquitous Annual Meeting on how virtual patients have the power to transform healthcare education. MedBiquitous is an organization involving eight working groups and 59 member organizations. The MedBiquitous Virtual Patient Working Group […]

Curriculum Transformation using Virtual Reality

Virtual reality and medical education: Creating scenarios in Second Life.

ICVP 2010 Rough Guide to Web 2.0: Part One

What is Web 2.0? (And why should you care?) Throughout the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients we will be exploring how Web 2.0 technology impacts medical and healthcare education. Web 2.0 is altering how we as educators communicate ideas and share content with our students, and how students communicate with each other. But what […]

Secrets of Creating and Maintaining Virtual Patient Case Collections

ICVP 2010 & MedBiquitous Annual Meeting: Secrets of Creating and Maintaining Virtual Patient Case Collections

ICVP 2010 & MedBiquitous Annual Meeting Conference Update

Organisers of the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients 2010 & MedBiquitous Annual Meeting have issued a statement regarding the Icelandic volcanic eruption and how this may affect attendee’s travel plans. They write: “Due to the recent volcano eruptions in Iceland we are aware that some of you may soon start experiencing traveling difficulties with […]

The new eViP CAMPUS VP Player

Jorn Heid, Frank Hess and Simone Huber from Heilbronn Informatics and Heidelberg University, at The Center for Virtual Patients in Heidelberg, Germany, talk about developing the CAMPUS VP players. Jorn Heid was instrumental in helping develop the CAMPUS VP player and has since helped create the CAMPUS Card player. The team also recently developed the […]

Look to the future: Virtual patients & e-learning in medical education

The 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients & MedBiquitous Annual Conference is set to take place on April 26th to 28th in London, UK.