Cartoon of the Day: Skunk Doctor

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Taken at the Happy Vixen. Rita's skunk doctor avatar, though not her character Dr. Odiferous. 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

SL Video: "Duran Duran - Come Undone"

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From Calacal on Dec 2011, "A Second Life movie, Duran Duran's Come Undone, inspired by Bride of Frankenstein. I hope you enjoy it!"

Cartoon of the Day: "Quack Doctor"

Taken at Club Cutlass's "Doctors and Nurses" event. Kylee Gracemount showed up in this avatar. So she should have see the joke coming. ;-)

By Bixyl Shuftan

Madpeas's "Virtual Medical Doctor" Game to Close

Some sad news for the fans of the MadPea gaming area. The doctor game "Virtual Medical Doctor" is set to be closed soon. On December 23rd, it's scheduled to fade away into the electronic nether. Kiana Writer mentioned the reason in a group chat, "Our sponsor is cutting down, so we're losing an island."

The game is at Tupol Island, (237, 132, 1027).

Press Release: Discussion on Interprofessional Health Care Education at Virtual Ability

Presenters will discuss their learning and experience from the recent All Together Better Health (ATBH) conference in Kobe, Japan. They will link the information from ATBH to key concepts of health literacy that they have used in Second Life in the Garden of Healthy Aging. They will also discuss new developments in health literacy for clinical environments in real life.

Presentation and discussion in text only. Powerpoint slides will be shown illustrating the ideas discussed.

PRESENTER BIOS:
Zsuzsa Tomsen (RL: Susan Toth-Cohen) is the Director of the Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program and Professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She has extensive experience instructing in Second Life, where her most recent project is “The Garden of Healthy Aging,” a gerontology resource project. Her numerous publications focus on occupational therapy, consumer health, and gerontology as applied in virtual worlds for professional and program development and evaluation.

ALiesel is an occupational therapy student at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. She works with Zsuzsa Tomsen as a graduate assistant in the Garden of Healthy Aging, with a focus on applying health literacy principles to this project. Earlier this month she co-presented her work in health literacy at the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association conference.

SUN Nov 4, 2012, 1:00pm SLT/Pacific
The Sojourner Auditorium, Virtual Ability

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/53/172/23

Cartoon of the Day

The Passionate Redheads Team for Relay for Life Sim Sponsorships

The Passionate Redheads are the only team sponsoring THREE sims during the actual Relay for Life Walk wich takes place July 16-17, 2011.

Each of these sims cost $250 USD; our team has been given the credit for these donations to the American Cancer Society.

Please remember to thank Cha Klaar for his generous gift to ACS and to our Team. Do take the time to visit the beautiful Medical Diorama he's created!

Sponsors:

Cha Klarr, owner of the Virtual 3D Medical Diorama; for the Passionate Redheads
Tupol Island (120, 131, 0)

Passionate Redheads; Team Sponsored Sim, funded by donations from Passionate Redheads Team Members. (This sim will bear our Team Name!)

Rita Martens; in memory of Anne Martens, Daaneth's sister (This sim will bear Anne's name).

With Love and Gratitude,

Sabine McGettigan

Virtual Medical Doctor

Among the games at the Madpea area is the new Virtual Medical Doctor. In the game, one controls a probe that takes care of a paitent's ills from within the body. If you're someone who's given any thought to being in medicine, or interested in the human body, this is the game for you.

To read more, go to Design.

Future Medicine in Second Life

Despite Linden Labs dropping it's discount for education-themed sims, some universities continue to keep a presence in Second Life. Reporter Any1 Gynoid checks out the UNCP campus, where college students use the Grid to telecommute to class on courses in nursing.

Check out the story in Extra.

A Visit to Ocean View Medical Center

Grey Lupindo ended up taking ill in real-life near the end of the year. Once she got better enough to use the computer, she decided to give one of the hospitals in Second Life a visit. So here is her record of her trip to Ocean View Medical Center.

Read the article in Places.