Speaker Name(s): Frederick W. Kron
Description: New media technologies, such as simulations and gaming, can significantly enhance medical training by greatly impacting learning on issues such as ethics, medical humanism, and communication. In addition, these technologies can be applied to patient education to facilitate a reduction in unhealthy behaviors and improvement in treatment plan compliance. In the area of IT, simulations can facilitate clinician adoption through the construction of virtual worlds where new technologies and processes are visualized and experimented with. In this session attendees will: * Learn how gaming and simulations are used in education * Explore the impact of these technologies on change management * Review the advantages of these learning techniques over traditional methods