Virtual Reality Simulation Training for Ebola Deployment

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 543-546

  Ragazzoni, Luca ^a   Ingrassia, Pier Luigi ^a   Echeverri, Lina ^b   Maccapani, Fabio ^a   Berryman, Lizzy ^b   Burkle, Frederick M ^c   Della Corte, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

education and training; Keywords Ebola; professionalization; simulation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TEACHING; UTILIZATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PATIENT SIMULATION; TEACHING;

EID: 84948568971     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.36     Document Type: Article

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