Free Medical Simulations
When we were looking at examples of learning theories, someone demo'd UF's own Virtual Anesthesia Machine. The team who developed that simulation (lead by Sem Lampotang) have developed many medical related simulations, several of which are available for free from thier website. Here's the url and link: http://vam.anest.ufl.edu/instructorsims/simulationportfolio.php
I recently went to a conference for medical librarians (more on the conference in my next post) and the use of medical simulations for learning was a hot topic.
posted by Mary @ 12:18 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Martin.
Glad you liked the simulations. Sem's group is doing some great stuff...I'm lucky to be in the Health Science Center with them so I can keep up with what they're doing.
Mary
Hi Brooke. I'm glad you learned a little about librarians :-)
Actually, I was pre-med for 4 years in undergrad (with a history major) and took a variety of science and history classes. I worked in the library during undergrad and realized I really enjoyed my work.
I realized I didn't really want to go to med school (it was more something I thought I should do than something I wanted to do) and decided to study library science. After I graduated I applied to USF for my masters in library and information science.
I love being a librarian, especially teaching and outreach with my departments. I enjoy mediated searching (performing a highly indepth literature search for a user) which we do a lot of here in the HSC. Working in a medical/academic health center library is great for me...especially since I spent so long taking all those sceince classes :-)
There are several library associations you can look at to learn more about what we do. The American Library Association (ALA) is the biggest and most general as it includes all types of libraries. Then there's the Medical Library Association, Special Library Association (for science and corporate libraries) Engineering Library Association, and on and on...
Here's a link to an ALA resource on librarianship: http://www.ala.org/ala/hrdr/librarycareerssite/home.htm
by the way, thanks for asking...I love talking about libraries and librarianship :-)
I promise to post my notes from the conference soon...
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