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Research suggests that virtual learning could considerably augment, if not eventually revolutionize medical education. In this study, medical students were provided with an opportunity to engage in an online, simulated Second Life environment in order to interactively address problem-based presentations of surgical disease within a safe, confidential, realistic and engaging medical educational platform.
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