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Practicing the Practice of Medicine
6/27/2002
All of Immersion Medical’s products combine cognitive and motor skills training into an integrated educational experience. They use real-time computer graphics and anatomic models drawn from real patients representing a range of ages, skin colors, and health conditions.
At Mount Sinai, the faculty use simulators for both didactic instruction and hands-on practice. Says Levine: “One of the advantages of using a simulator as opposed to a real patient is that, as the teacher, you can focus completely on the student’s technique. It’s easy to make mistakes, and it’s better for students to be able to make their mistakes in a safe environment where we can work with them to learn from those mistakes.”
For more information, contact Immersion Medical, Gaithersburg, Md., at (301) 984-3706 or www.immersion.com.
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