Second life in healthcare education: Virtual environment's potential to improve patient safety

Knowledge Management and E-Learning

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-23

  Lee, Angie ^a   Berge, Zane L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Patient safety; Second life; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866039505     PISSN: 20737904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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