Helene M. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Virtual Reality and Next Generation Simulations: Do They Have a Place in Health Sciences Curricula?

Tuesday, March 4, 2003
Education III Building
Pauly Auditorium
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

We invite all UAMS faculty to attend.
One hour of CME category 1 credit is available.

In her presentation, Dr. Helene Hoffman will provide an overview of VR in health education and discuss the benefits of virtual learning environments and next-generation simulations. She will also describe the Anatomic VisualizeR project and will demonstrate the implementation of this system in a variety of learning contexts.

Dr. Hoffman is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Educational Computing at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Her responsibilities include development, implementation, and evaluation of technology-based resources and services for undergraduate medical curriculum. Dr. Hoffman's research activities focus on human learning and the educational application of new technologies such as virtual reality. Since 1993, she has been

Principle Investigator on grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research that have led to the development of a virtual learning environment called "Anatomic VisualizeR."