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Judi Smith heads up training in Second Life for Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Here she is with her Second Life avatar, "Judi Carver."

Judi Smith heads up training in Second Life for Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Here she is with her Second Life avatar, "Judi Carver."  Smith's team recreated Children's Memorial Hospital in Second Life to train staff on how to evacuate patients in case of emergency. The re-creation includes details to help staff orient themselves in the virtual world, like the purple-headed sculpture in the distance, which is in the lobby of the real-life hospital.  Smith's avatar, Judi Carver, and the avatar of InformationWeek executive editor Mitch Wagner, examine a suspicious package in Children's Memorial Hospital. Discovery of the package--which could just be someone's forgotten knapsack, and could be bomb--gets the training exercise going.  The object of the training exercise is to retrieve software dolls, representing patients, and evacuate them from the hospital simulation. The goal is to be ready in case the hospital needs to be evacuated in real life.  After collecting the patients, hospital staff brings them to ambulances waiting in front of the building, to be removed to safety.  Alice Krueger, seen here with her avatar Gentle Heron, leads a disabilities support group in Second Life. 

Judi Smith heads up training in Second Life for Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Here she is with her Second Life avatar, "Judi Carver."