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    Bill Kapralos & Alvaro Uribe-Quevedo

  2. Disciplines of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics and the Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Canada

    Adam Dubrowski

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Kapralos, B., Uribe-Quevedo, A., Dubrowski, A. (2018). Immersive Technologies for Medical Education. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_130-1

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