Exercises and student meeting

vera has a couple of exercises planned…1/19/08 at 10 am slt..an er exercise. The surgical exercise is for 1/26/08 10 am slt (both are saturdays) and then we’ll have our first monthly student meeting at 11:30 am on 1/26. So if you’re interested in being a student you can come see these and join in and talk to one of the docs about membership. All ammc students should plan to be at ammc for these. Let’s keep dr. Ann’s dream alive!

Health Issues

Many of you know that my health is quickly deteriorating. As such, the time has come for me to leave the AMMC. My hope is that I have given you all you need to keep the center alive and growing - making it far better than I could ever have acquired.

I will retain an advisory position and be available for meetings for as long as I possibly can. It has been my sincere and greatest pleasure knowing and meeting all of you. I have been utterly delighted with the small steps we have achieved.

After the BioPharm event, my time in SL will be severly limited and when I am in, save for AMMC meetings and lectures and/or events. Please keep in mind, it will not be long before I am unable to attend these functions, as well.

Thank you to each of you for catching my vision and trying to build something international. I dare say we could have achieved more had we been purely based within one institution. I still retain my conviction that an international arena for medical study and collaboration is more than possible and is highly probable, if we move forward. I will do what I can for the limited time I will remain available.

With much warmth and care towards all of you,

Ann 

Avelient Biopharm Event

Avelient Biopharm (http://avelient.com/BioPharmBlog/?p=52) will be hosting The New York Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology December Meetup. You can read about the event here: http://biotech.meetup.com/34/calendar/6730048/ . They will be visiting the AMMC on December 10th - I realize it is late for the majority of you, but it would be helpful if we could get together and plan something to promote what we are trying to achieve. I will post this information as a notice in-world, as well. Please let me know if you have thoughts, ideas or want to hold a demonstration.

Ann

Using Second Life’s 3D Online World to Train Online Students‏

The following is an original post from John Miller, SL-JS Vavoom. I will mention that the easiest way to join the group in roder to participate in this event is to search for CIT under the “Group” Search function in SL.

FYI, I and some others in SLED are doing a presentation this Monday, in SL and RL, if all goes well, lol, and it usually never does.  See details below.

JS Vavoom, John Miller

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Using Second Life’s 3D Online World to Train Online Students RL and SL Presentation, Monday, November 12, 2007, 1:15pm SLT, 1:15

Instructional designers and faculty in any educational program will benefit from this presentation.  Included in this presentation is the unveiling of an innovative emergency/nursing education simulator (NESIM).  Live patient simulations will be created and role played while RN student teams use the NESIM simulator to apply critical thinking skills and interventions.   

1. Learn about SL
2. Learn how to use SL for education
3. Learn how to use simulators for interactive education
4. Learn how to develop basic simulation strategies and incorporate them into existing courses
5. Learn how to train in medical fields in SL  

RL Time & Location - Conference on Information Technology, Nashville, TN  Rock and Roll Room, Renaissance Hotel, 3:15pm CST, Monday, November 12, 2007  http://www.league.org/league/partners/confer_profile.htm#cit

SL Time & Location -   ISTE Auditorium  http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island/207/51/23 1:15pm SLT, Monday, November 12, 2007.  Be prompt.  This is a multi-location presentation in SL. The presentation will begin and end at ISTE Auditorium.

SL Event Information and Instructions 

• Join the group, CIT ‘07 SL Nursing Ed Sim, before the conference.  The presentation will be in voice, in group mode using this group.  Please go to Preferences, Voice Chat, put a check in the boxes Enable voice chat and Start Viewer in Push-to-Talk mode.  Please make sure that Push-to-Talk in toggle mode is not checked.  This will eliminate sounds from your rl on the listening end.  Please only press to speak, Push-to-Talk trigger) if specifically invited to by the moderator, padlurowncanoe Dibou.
• A landmark to NESIM will be sent out in a group notice.  NESIM is usually “access list only” but will be open during the presentation.
• Please IM text the moderator, padlurowncanoe Dibou, with questions during the presentation.  She will forward them to the appropriate presenter.  Any questions not addressed during the Q&A, will receive a personal response, post-presentation.
• Direct pre and post event questions to padlurowncanoe Dibou by IM, notecard, or email, padln@hotmail.com
• Direct NESIM pre and post event inquiries to JS Vavoom by notecard or email, jsvavoom@gmail.com

SL and RL Event Outline

• Live SL Musician, Komuso Tokugawa, will entertain with a few songs as attendees arrive, attain notecards, and set up group and SL voice preference for the event.  The RL event will observe and listen on the big screen as RL presenters greet, pass out materials, and provide an overview of SL.
• Opening Remarks - padlurowncanoe Dibou (Cathy Walker)
• NESIM Project overview - JS Vavoom (John Miller) and Dante Abrusto (Jeff Cain)
• NESIM simulator description - JS Vavoom (John Miller) and markin Pau (David Bodily)
• Go to NESIM for live demo with Tacoma Community College RN students.
• Q&A at NESIM — text moderator, padlurowncanoe Dibou, with questions.
• Return to ISTE. Results and future SL education plans - JS, markin, and Dante (John, David, and Jeff)
• Q&A at ISTE — text moderator, padlurowncanoe Dibou, with questions.

Presenters

• John Miller MN, BSN, ADN, RN, instructor of nursing, Tacoma Community College (SL - JS Vavoom)
• David Bodily BSN, RN, instructor of nursing, Western Wyoming Community College (SL - markin Pau)

·         Geoff Cain MS, instructional designer, Tacoma Community College (SL Dante Abrusto)

RN Students

·         Rebecca Bean, RN nursing student, Tacoma Community College (SL - 2B Schmooz)

Marisa Aslanian, RN nursing student, Tacoma Community College (SL - BayBay Bedrosian)

A Special Thanks To

• Andy Duckworth, BA, distance learning coordinator, Tacoma Community College  

 Event Coordinator

• Cathy Walker, Educational Technology and Network Admin, St. Vincent de Paul (SL - padlurowncanoe Dibou)

John Miller RN, MN Nursing Faculty

Elsevier Medical Wiki

Elsevier recently released the medical Wiki: www.wiserwiki.com. Matteats Burger is a representative of Elsevier in SL and also a member of the AMMC. His colleague, Michelle Lee (contact Matt for Michelle’s SL-avatar’s name) has offered her assistance to help physicians register on the WIKI site. Anyone can read the Wiki site, but only physicians can edit and add content to the Wiki.

As well, Eslevier is interested in assisting the AMMC to develop training programs. Please send content thoughts and ideas to MattEats Burger in SL. He can also put you in touch with Michelle Lee. 

Avelient BioPharm Blog

AMMC was recently featured on the Avelient BioPharm Blog. CC Carnell and DoctorAnn Buchanan were interviewed for the article by Mariano DiFabio (SL - Lupino Benazzi). We were honoured to be mentioned on the compnay Blog. 

AMMC Building, Breast Cancer event and More

I apologize that I am just getting back to things in SL. I am trying to catch up in the real world with all my various duties and have had difficulties keeping up with SL matters.

We are finishing the building, which I estimate should take another couple of weeks at the most. I have asked everyone for their ideas for the Center (Such as building a Cardiac wing, what type of builds to place, where the wing should be, etc.), but as yet I have not had much feedback.

As it is October and Breast Cancer Awareness month, Vera Zhaoying is working to hold a BCA event around the end of the month. She has the assistance of the Breast Cancer Group and the American Cancer Society within SL, so we are hoping for a good turn out and to hold a fun event where people might actually learn a few things, as well.

I will try to catch up to everything related to the AMMC and SL as soon as possible. I am still trying to get through my long list of E-mails and messages and will hopefully be able to respond to everyone in turn.

I thank everyone for their warm thoughts of me and of my family at this very difficult time.

Ann

American Cancer Society Dedication

Ann spoke at the acs dedication today through skype…her father was a past director. If you didn’t hear it it was really moving and a great tribute. The whole service was moving.

Ann’s Father

Ann’s father passed around 8:40 PM EST tonight, 19 September, 2007. Please remember her in your thoughts and prayers. Bob

New Building

Davis is creating a new AMMC building….this will take time. Dont be distressed if you come to us and find a building in pieces. It should be great when we’re finished.