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Innovative Medical Education Technologies
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Surgeons used VR to separate twins with conjoined heads in a 27-hour surgery, spending hours training using VR projection with PrecisionOS Vision while wearing an Oculus VR headset. — Ramy Shaaban, Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, gamification, and immersive learning · 16:55
Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, virtual reality, and gamification
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Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, gamification, and immersive learning
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In this session, Drs. Ramy Shaaban and Em Tombash guide us through the most disruptive technologies of the last year. What innovations are going on in the world? They explain each one. An amazing trip on what is coming and how the future ma
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Examining Audiology Students' Clinical Collaboration Skills When Using Virtual Audiology Cases Aided With No Collaboration, Live Collaboration, and Virtual Collaboration
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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to examine students' ability to use effective clinical collaboration online in a designed scaffolded environment. Three groups were formed to achieve this goal: two control groups (one using no co
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Examining audiology students’ clinical reasoning skills with virtual audiology cases aided with no collaboration, live collaboration, and virtual collaboration
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the difference in clinical reasoning skills of students when using virtual audiology cases aided with no collaboration, virtual collaboration, and live collaboration. The theoretical framewo
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Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, virtual reality, and gamification
Medical education has changed focus to a more learner-centered model, placing learners at the center of innovation in training over the past two decades.
opinionPam Choi0:25 ↗
Escape rooms are time-bound immersive adventure experiences with hidden clues and keys, where participants try to get out before time ends, typically including sequential puzzles or escape box challenges.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position0:43 ↗
Escape room exercises help healthcare teams develop and enhance communication, teamwork, and resilience skills, as well as reinforce medical knowledge.
clinicalPam Choi1:03 ↗
Medical escape rooms have been utilized to teach and reinforce topics including discussing cancer diagnosis, cardiovascular physiology, and fluids and electrolytes.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position1:24 ↗
When used effectively, escape rooms act as a low-cost high effect resource for a variety of learners.
opinionPam Choi1:35 ↗
Institutions are adopting medical escape rooms to teach residents, nursing staff, and other trainees to recognize and respond to medical conditions like preeclampsia, sepsis, and patient safety.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position1:49 ↗
Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, University of Kansas Health System, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and University of Minnesota have built medical escape rooms to improve education among trainees.
clinicalPam Choi2:01 ↗
Casey Davis and colleagues published a how-to guide for building medical escape rooms in Medical Teacher journal in April 2022.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position2:19 ↗
Virtual reality is a simulated 3D environment that allows users to explore and interact with virtual surroundings in a way that looks like reality.
clinicalPam Choi2:36 ↗
Metaverse is an integrated network of 3D virtual worlds accessed with VR headsets, with users navigating using eye movements, feedback controllers, and voice commands.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position2:52 ↗
Thumbay Group from Dubai, UAE is the first to build a virtual hospital on a metaverse to interact with patients and improve patient experience.
clinicalPam Choi3:07 ↗
The virtual hospital provides patients with immersive healthcare experience from patient experience center to complete hospital walkthrough and services, allowing consultation via virtual headsets.
clinicalPam Choi3:17 ↗
Avatars can visit multiple doctors in virtual clinics or get second opinions from various healthcare professionals in the virtual hospital.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position3:32 ↗
Virtual hospitals offer first aid and preventative health programs using AR, VR, and artificial intelligence software to educate patients and suggest treatment plans.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position3:39 ↗
VR can be used to ease anxiety before procedures or during imaging, help pain post-operatively, and in some cases reduce the need for sedation or general anesthesia during minor surgical procedures.
clinicalPam Choi3:56 ↗
In 2018, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital Stanford piloted VR capabilities in pediatric clinical settings and expanded its VR program to over 150 use cases per month, helping young patients beyond the hospital.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position4:11 ↗
Stanford Medicine Children's Health is home to one of the nation's largest VR programs.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position4:30 ↗
The Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology program (Chariot) at Stanford aims to take existing technologies and create new ones to address unique needs of individual patients.
clinicalPam Choi4:34 ↗
A team of physicians, engineers, researchers, and child life professionals is piloting virtual reality experiences, new tablet-based apps, and interactive bedside projector-based games at Stanford.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position4:50 ↗
Gamification is the application of typical elements of game playing to other areas of activities, especially tasks that are not enjoyable, to encourage engagement with a product or service.
clinicalPam Choi5:02 ↗
A prospective randomized controlled trial from Seoul National University College of Medicine showed VR experience of the preoperative process could reduce preoperative anxiety and improve compliance during anesthetic induction in children undergoing elective surgery and general anesthesia.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position5:28 ↗
Induu allows healthcare professionals to create a unique digital copy of their patient using CT or MRI scans, which surgeons can review with a virtual headset before going into the case.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position6:25 ↗
The National Institute of Health, OSF Healthcare, and Children's Hospital of Illinois use Induu for training surgical teams, evaluating patient cases, research collaborations, and more.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position6:46 ↗
Precision OS creates surgical simulations to accelerate skill acquisition and surgical readiness, with VR learning partnerships at 29 medical institutions in North America including University of Connecticut, University of Toronto, and University of British Columbia.
clinicalPam Choi6:57 ↗
A significant percentage of surgical residents report they do not feel ready to independently perform procedures upon completion of their training.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position7:17 ↗
VR training represents an accessible, cost-effective, and deliberate practice methodology to help surgeons reach a competency threshold or achieve surgical mastery.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position7:26 ↗
The FDA approved Precision OS Envision as a VR preoperative planning tool, with the patented software available in early 2022, letting surgeons use an Oculus Quest 2 device for preoperative planning.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position7:37 ↗
Surgeons used VR to separate twins with conjoined heads in a 27-hour long surgery, spending hours training using VR projection with Precision OS Envision while wearing an Oculus VR headset.
clinicalPam Choi7:55 ↗
The surgery's direction was from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London while the actual surgery was happening in Rio de Janeiro.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position8:20 ↗
Proximy allows multiple people in remote locations to virtually interact in a way which mimics what they would experience if collaborating in the same operating room, using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented reality.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing the discussion — not the host's own clinical position8:28 ↗
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