Herts BLU Conference Presentation 170610

Rose Heaney Learning Technology Advisor Jo Dawes Senior Lecturer, Physiotherapy Implementing a Manageable Second Life ® Virtual Patient system B School of Health and Bioscience University of East London

Overview of presentation
UEL Context
Why Second Life?
The Virtual Patient
Manageability
Evaluation
Future
Conclusions
R

Context
Healthcare programmes at UEL
Podiatry
Physiotherapy
Herbal Medicine
Acupuncture
R

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
R

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.
J

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
J

Possible Solutions lifelike simulations PBL scenarios interactive J

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)
R

low confidence resistant take it enthusiastic high confidence leave it Technology spectrum
Manageability – a key challenge
R VLE SL Students

Inspiration for Project J UEL Virtual Lab Imperial Respiratory Ward St. George’s paramedic scenarios 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
R

J 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
R

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)
http://www.uelconnect.org.uk/2ndlife/
R

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
R

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
R

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
R

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
J

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
J

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
J

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
R & J

Thanks
Contact details
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SL: Justina Dotterkelch
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SL: Maisy Carter

Herts BLU Conference Presentation 170610

by Rose Heaney on Jun 17, 2010

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