Is there any real virtue of virtual reality? The minor role of multiple orientations in learning anatomy from computers

Academic Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Garg, Amit X ^a   Norman, Geoffrey R ^a   Eva, Kevin W ^a   Spero, Lawrence ^a   Sharan, Sumit ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036794159     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200210001-00030     Document Type: Article

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