Abstract
During Internet2's 2002 Fall Member Meeting in Los Angeles, the California Orthopaedic Research Network (CORN) demonstrated a unique distributed learning environment that sought to enrich medical student understanding of hand anatomy and surgery. Live, streaming video of an orthopedic surgical procedure at UCLA Medical Center was combined with related stereoscopic “virtual hand” images from Stanford, to teach participants at a third location. Medical students, anatomists, and surgeons at these remote but connected sites valued the simultaneous real-time interactions among the different venues. A number of technical issues were resolved during this exercise. This article describes the process of arranging such a demonstration and summarizes the lessons learned from our experience so that this innovative pedagogical approach can be successfully adopted on a broader scale.
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