Teaching dermatology using 3-dimensional virtual reality

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 146, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1184-1185

  Aldridge, Roger Benjamin ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Ballerini, Lucia ^a   Fisher, Robert B ^a   Rees, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SILICON;

COMPUTER MODEL; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEM; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DERMATOLOGY; EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; TEACHING;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DERMATOLOGY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77958161072     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.294     Document Type: Letter

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