Project Summary (revised/planning)

Medical errors constitute the fifth leading cause of death, being more common than victims of breast cancer, AIDS and road accidents. The new "high tech" environment of health care necessitates more frequent man-machine interaction and sets new demands on prevention of human error to ensure patient safety. Advocates of advanced medical simulation claim that simulators should be introduced as a routine part of medical training. more...

Wednesday, 6-30-04
Evaluation Study Successful
30 Students were exposed to 6 case studies since May 22nd and all responded with enthusiasm in their assessment of the learning experience. The study was split between the 3D world at SUMMIT and the Human Patient Simulator (HPS) at the VA hospital. 2 Sets of 15 Students spent a half a day learning to be a successful team leader on either the 3D world or the HPS. The SUMMIT Team is now working to compile the data.

Saturday, 5-22-04
Evaluation Study to Begin
Virtual Emergency Department Study Participants in the Team Training Exercise: We provide the following materials prepared by Dr. Phil Harter for working effectively in the 3D-ED World. Please STUDY them ASAP, noting the date, time and duration of your study. The VR-ED study will begin as scheduled for four students on Tuesday, May 25th. Others are scheduled for May 27th, and still others, in June. Watch this page for regular updates about the study. more...
Straight to the Cases: Cases (Stanford)

Demonstration: Video (9-3-03)

Friday 2-27-04
SimTec Meeting to discuss Validation Study
Present: Robert, Sakti, Pat, Phil, Decker Walker (Professor from School of Education)
Purpose: To revise the validation study design to accommodate the limitations noted previously: Phil’s time and concern about student compliance to remain in intact groups and show up for numerous training sessions conducted over several weeks. more...

Wed 6-18-03
A Note from Sakti

Hi SimTechers,
Further to Calle's suggestion, I would like to organize a few sessions at different times of the day. We can have a session for example when it is morning in US and evening in Sweden or reverse, pm in US and am in Sweden. Please let me know what times work best for you. more...

All three participants were in the Atmosphere world as well as the Talker environment. We were able to control the heart rate using the buttons in the Controls. The message was received by each of the participants so that the correct values were displayed on the screen. more...

Thurs 5-22-03
Calle, Li in Sweden, Leroy, Pat, Sakti, Robert at Stanford

We had four avatars in the world, plus all four in Talker. Li was able to move around and transmit and receive audio. Li has a 3 Mbps connection, so the problems with Calle could be due to the network. The audio quality with Calle was still poor, and again he could interact with the world. more...

2-13-03
Notes from LeRoy

Hello, Team
We are making progress in three areas at Stanford;
* I plan to visit METI, Inc. in Florida on Monday...
* Robert has preliminary display panels panels in the VR-ER that depict changing heart rate...
* I have reviewed the literature, for another purpose, on studies with video conferenceing, VR, etc. as tele-education efforts. more...