Body Interact vs Virtual Labs

* About Body Interact * In Body Interact you take charge of your own learning experience. Improve critical thinking and decision-making by solving dynamic clinical cases with virtual patients. Just as in the real world, you are responsible for defining your own diagnosis and treatment plan, while feeling the emotions and pressure to treating patients and acting quickly! There is no predefined path limiting or forcing your actions. Here, everything happens in real time and you can see how your choices influence a patient's condition. Real-life complexity in your hands: - Virtual Patients can go from babies, to children, teens, young adults, pregnant women, adults and seniors - Different environments: inpatient, outpatient and pre-hospital scenarios - Time pressure: if you don’t act quickly enough, patients’ conditions start to deteriorate - Different levels of difficulty, according to your clinical knowledge - Interact with patients and ask them questions - Do the Physical Examination following ABCDE approach - Complete set of medical exams, interventions, and medications available to help your diagnosis and treatment plan. See below the specialties covered: -Allergy/Immunology -Anesthesiology -Cardiology -Endocrinology -Gastroenterology -Infectious Diseases -Internal Medicine -Nephrology -Neurology -Oncology -Orthopedic -Pediatrics -Pregnancy/Gynecology -Pulmonology -Toxicology -Trauma -Urology -Vascular surgery

Light your Bunsen burner! Test yogurt for contamination in a virtual lab, and judge whether the bacteria you find are harmful or beneficial. Virtual Labs interactive food science modules train high school and college students in basic laboratory techniques. Learn how to use Gram staining to differentiate beneficial bacteria from dangerous bacteria in food samples. Working in the virtual lab of a dairy processing plant, you analyze yogurt samples and follow step-by-step lab procedures to test for Salmonella and E. coli. Sterilize your inoculation loop, and prepare your slide, then view the sample under a microscope and observe the differences in appearance between beneficial bacteria and harmful bacteria. Virtual Labs: Gram Staining familiarizes the user with food science lab equipment and teaches standard techniques for this specific procedure. The interactive initially guides the user through each step of the lab process; then users prepare Gram stain slides on their own to find out for certain whether this batch of yogurt is safe. This work was supported by USDA CSREES and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture under two Higher Education Challenge Grant projects: 2008-38411-19055 and 2011-38411-30625. © 2008-2016 NMSU Board of Regents. Collaborating universities South Dakota State University, North Dakota State University and New Mexico State University are all equal opportunity/affirmative action employers and educators.