Virtual reality and the transformation of medical education
By J. Pottle. Future Hospital Journal, 2019
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ABSTRACT Medical education is changing. Simulation is increasingly becoming a cornerstone of clinical training and, though effective, is resource intensive. With increasing pressures on budgets and standardisation, virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a new method of delivering simulation. VR offers benefits for learners and educators, delivering cost-effective, repeatable, standardised clinical training on demand. A large body of evidence supports VR simulation in all industries, including healthcare. Though VR is not a panacea, it is a powerful educational tool for defined learning objectives and implementation is growing worldwide. The future of VR lies in its ongoing integration into curricula and with technological developments that allow shared simulated clinical experiences. This will facilitate quality interprofessional education at scale, independent of geography, and transform how we deliver education to the clinicians of the future.
Subfields: Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery
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- Learning and development (2013, neutral): “…the conclusions of other scientists that the integration of modern digital technologies takes place according to the discipline and direction of study, adapting in an appropriate way to the needs of the educational process (de Moraes Rossetto et al., 2022; Kozlovskyi et al., 2024; Pottle, 2019).”
- How Virtual Reality Technology Has Changed Our Lives: An Overview of the Current and Potential Applications and Limitations (2022, background): “In terms of learning how to perform procedures, medical students can train in an interactive virtual environment that can be programmed with different scenarios, which allows a student to experience real-life scenarios with virtual patients [37].”