Medical students are making their rounds at a full-service hospital where they are seeing patients, ordering x-rays, consulting with colleagues, and making their diagnoses - to computer-generated patients. Second Life, the popular virtual world inhabited by millions of real-life people from around the globe, provides a unique platform in which third-year medical students at Imperial College London can apply their classroom studies. While this game-based training isn't meant to replace walking the halls of brick and mortar hospitals, the virtual hospitals do provide students with valuable hands-on experience and a welcome break from lectures and books.
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