Students from the UC Davis Extension MH214 class: The Internet and the Future of Patient Care landed in fine form on the digital turf of Davis Island; one of the research locations for UC Davis Psychiatry and Health Informatics Faculty & research partners, Peter Yellowlees MD, Marty Leamon MD and James (Linden) Cook MD. The private islands are home to two 3D facilities housing the Virtual Hallucinations and Bioterrorism Defense projects. Articles on both projects are available via PubMed, the mega-database of the National Library of Medicine.
The class session included discussion of students' experience in SL; an informative session about the SL platform by James (Linden) Cook MD who has been an engineer with Linden Lab evolving the platform since its early days. This was followed by a building demo, the results of which you can see in the screenshots.
The Tours:
Following the very cool building demo, we visited two health related sites in Second Life: CISCO's Virtual Palomar West Hospital of San Diego.
The second stop was at Virtual Ability Island was co-winner of the Linden Prize this past May, US$10,000. for improving real lives through Second Life.
Last week we visited Imperial College's Second Health London Polyclinic.
More colorful photos of the class: http://www.flickr.com/photos/photolibraries/sets/72157622335169900/
To view the images in sequence, click on the Slideshow link at the top right side of the Flickr window:
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