How one university is using VR to teach medical students how to deal with cardiac arrests ➡️ Imperial is the first medical school in the world to use VR to train future doctors
“You just can’t guarantee that they’ll see these sorts of emergencies in real life – you have to be in the right place at the right time,” says Professor Amir Sam, head of Imperial’s School of Medicine.
Trainee doctors are grilled on what they would do next if a patient were undergoing a cardiac arrest The university has also started simulating non-emergency situations that are hard to learn from a textbook, such as dealing with an angry family., or found themselves in the emergency room on a busy day in hospital, will know that half the job for medics is keeping people calm.
“This sort of anger-inducing situation is very common, especially on weekends when there’s often a lapse in communications,” says Dr Walls. But students want to get their hands ever dirtier, he explains. Feedback forms have consistently found that trainee medics at Imperial want to use their virtual gloves to perform blood tests and dissections – things that the university is now exploring.
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