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Tuesday, December 24, 2002
Professors planning Internet med school - Associated Press
A man named George Farmer is out in his field fixing a fence when he accidentally jams a rusty nail through his leg. He doesn’t do anything about it at first, but after a day his wife urges him to go to the doctor, so he does. The doctor talks to him, examines the wound, reviews his medical history and then determines what should be done. It all sounds pretty straightforward. But, in fact, the doctor isn’t actually a real doctor — at least not yet — and George Farmer is not a real person. He’s a virtual patient living in a virtual medical universe. Within a year, university professors from around the world, including one from New London, hope to have a virtual medical school online and running. If everything goes as planned, students will be pointing and clicking their ways to degrees in medicine.
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