Bio statement

Founder and Director, Distance Education for Health, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs; Associate Professor

Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)
Thursday, September 17, 2009 to Friday, September 18, 2009
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Attended Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)
Friday, September 16, 2011 to Sunday, September 18, 2011
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Is registered to attend Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)
Saturday, September 15, 2012 to Sunday, September 16, 2012
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)

Learning In a Virtual World: Experience With Using Second Life for Medical Education
John Moore Wiecha*, Robin Heyden

So called "Web 2.0" technologies hold great potential for medical education. Second Life is the best known of a group of new web-based social networking virtual reality environments. Although these environments are being increasingly explored for use in education, we are aware of almost no use or evaluation of these environments for formal medical education, either at the undergraduate, residency, or post graduate levels. Most applications of these environments in medical education have been ...

Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)

Health Education in a Virtual World: Experience with Patient and Professional Education in Second Life
John Moore Wiecha*, Milagros Rosal, Robin Heyden, Neil Heyden, Roberta Capelson, Karen Chalmers, Suzanne Mitchell

Virtual worlds are rapidly becoming part of the educational technology landscape. Second Life (SL) is one of the best known of these environments. This presentation will describe two of our recent educational projects using SL, one for physicians, and one for patients. Physician education The aims of the project were to explore the feasibility, acceptability and limited efficacy of a virtual world platform for delivering motivational interviewing (MI) training. MI is an evidence-based coun...

Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

Learning in a Virtual World: Experience Using Second Life for Medical and Health Behaviors Education
John Moore Wiecha*, Milagros Rosal, Marloes Schoonheim, Mario Meraldi, Robin Heyden, Neil Heyden

Virtual worlds are becoming an important part of the educational technology landscape. Second Life (SL) is one of the best known of these environments. This presentation will describe two of our recent educational projects using SL – one for healthcare professionals (HCP) and one for patients. The HCP project was a pilot to determine the feasibility of using virtual worlds for the global “Training in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research” distance-learning course co-sponsored by ...

Full Paper Publications

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Learning in a Virtual World: Experience With Using Second Life for Medical Education
John Wiecha, Robin Heyden, Elliot Sternthal, Mario Merialdi
J Med Internet Res 2010;12(1):e1

A Pilot Study of Motivational Interviewing Training in a Virtual World
Suzanne Mitchell, Neil Heyden, Paul Schroy, Stephen Andrew, Ekaterina Sadikova, John Wiecha
J Med Internet Res 2011;13(3):e77

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