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Emerging Technologies in Medical Education
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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. — Pam Choi, Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, virtual reality, and gamification · 3:56
Virtual Reality and Metaverse2 items
Exploring the metaverse and its potential applications in healthcare
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Here is our first bonus episode explaining a technology that we believe will transform healthcare: Metaverse. Metaverse is an integrated network of 3D virtual w
podcast4:03 · Jul 2026
Exploring the Metaverse: Virtual Reality Applications in Healthcare and Surgery
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Here is our first bonus episode explaining a technology that we believe will transform healthcare: Metaverse. Metaverse is an integrated network of 3D virtual w
podcast4:03 · Jul 2026
Gamification and Escape Rooms2 items
Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, virtual reality, and gamification
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We are back with another Update Course Rewind video. This time we are presenting you âthe latest innovations that we believe are transforming healthcareâ. Hosts
podcast12:30 · Jul 2026
Disruptive Technologies in Medical Education: Escape Rooms, Virtual Reality, and Gamification
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We are back with another Update Course Rewind video. This time we are presenting you âthe latest innovations that we believe are transforming healthcareâ. Hosts
podcast12:29 · Nov 2026
Clinical Reasoning Development1 item
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
article · Oct 2026
Collaborative Learning Environments1 item
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
article · Oct 2026
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Disruptive Technologies in Medical Education: Escape Rooms, Virtual Reality, and Gamification
Medical education has changed its focus to a more learner-centered model, placing learners at the center of innovation in training over the past two decades.
opinionRami Chapan0:25 ↗
Escape room is a time-bound immersive adventure experience with hidden clues and keys where participants try to get out before time runs out.
clinicalRami Chapan0:43 ↗
Escape rooms can help healthcare teams develop and enhance communication, teamwork and resilience skills, as well as reinforce medical knowledge.
clinicalRami Chapan1:08 ↗
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 a resource — not the host's own clinical position1:25 ↗
Institutions are adopting medical escape rooms to teach residents, nursing staff, and other trainees how to recognize and respond to conditions like preeclampsia, sepsis, and patient safety.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position1:49 ↗
Texas Children's Hospital, University of Kansas Health System, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and University of Minnesota have built medical escape rooms to improve education among trainees.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position2:01 ↗
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 a resource — 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.
clinicalRami Chapan2:40 ↗
Metaverse is an integrated network of 3D virtual worlds accessed through a virtual reality headset, navigated using eye movements, feedback controllers, and voice commands.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position2:52 ↗
Tambay Group from Dubai, UAE is the first to build a virtual hospital on a metaverse to interact with patients and improve patient experience.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position3:07 ↗
Virtual hospital will provide teleconsultation where avatars can visit multiple doctors in a virtual clinic or get second opinions using virtual headsets.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position3:28 ↗
Virtual hospital will offer first aid and preventative health programs using AR, VR, and artificial intelligence to educate patients and suggest treatment plans.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — 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.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position3:56 ↗
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford expanded its VR program in 2018 to help young patients beyond the hospital, with over 150 use cases per month, making it one of the nation's largest VR programs.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position4:11 ↗
Stanford's CHARIOT program (Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology) aims to take existing technologies and create new ones to address unique needs of patients.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position4:35 ↗
A 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 a resource — not the host's own clinical position5:28 ↗
Enduvo allows healthcare professionals to create a unique digital twin 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 a resource — not the host's own clinical position6:32 ↗
The National Institute of Health, OSF Healthcare, and Children's Hospital of Illinois use Enduvo for training surgical teams, evaluating patient cases, and research collaborations.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — 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.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position6:57 ↗
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 a resource — 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 a resource — not the host's own clinical position7:26 ↗
FDA approved Precision OS Envision as a VR preoperative planning tool, available in early 2022, letting surgeons use an Oculus Quest 2 device for preoperative planning.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position7:37 ↗
Surgeons used VR to separate twins with conjoined heads in a 27-hour surgery, spending hours training using VR projection with Precision OS Envision while wearing an Oculus VR headset.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position7:58 ↗
The conjoined twins surgery was directed from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London while the actual surgery happened in Rio de Janeiro.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position8:20 ↗
Proximy allows multiple people in remote locations to virtually interact in a way that mimics collaborating in the same operating room, using AI, machine learning, and augmented reality.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position8:34 ↗
Wristbands are difficult to fasten, may irritate the skin, must be rotated to be scanned, can be too tight and hurt the patient, or too loose and fall off.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position9:48 ↗
Identity Shield is an RFID-enabled smart ID sticker to replace hospital wristbands, with optical scanning option.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position10:03 ↗
The Identity Shield sticker is made of thin plastic material that is adhesive, non-reactive, and hypoallergenic, includes PHI like name, date of birth, weight, blood type, and allergies, and lasts for 7 days on patients.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position10:28 ↗
Common use of Identity Shield is in NICU, newborns, and children, due to the high loss rate of wristbands which is 12% in this population.
Host summaryEm Tombash summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position10:43 ↗
The Northwell system used the Identity Shield badge on over 30,000 patients between October 2019 and November 2020, mostly at Lennox Hill Hospital in New York City during the pandemic.
Host summaryRami Chapan summarizing a resource — not the host's own clinical position10:53 ↗
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