Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, gamification, and immersive learning

Medical escape rooms have been utilized to teach and reinforce topics including cancer diagnosis, cardiovascular physiology, and fluids and electrolytes.

Stanford Medicine Children's Health is home to one of the nation's largest VR programs with over 150 use cases per month.

A randomized controlled trial from Seoul National University College of Medicine showed that VR experience of the preoperative process could reduce preoperative anxiety and improve compliance during anesthetic induction in children undergoing elective surgery and general anesthesia.

A significant percentage of surgical residents report they do not feel ready to independently perform procedures upon completion of their training.

VR training represents an accessible, cost-effective, and deliberate practice methodology to help surgeons reach a competency threshold or achieve surgical mastery.

The FDA approved Precision OS Envision as a VR preoperative planning tool, with the patented software available in early 2022 allowing surgeons to use an Oculus Quest 2 device for preoperative planning.

The conjoined twins surgery was directed from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London while the actual surgery was happening in Rio de Janeiro.

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 AI, machine learning, and augmented reality.

Traditional wristbands are difficult to fasten, may irritate the skin, must be rotated to be scanned, can be too tight causing patient harm, or too loose leading to loss.

In the Northwell pilot study, 80% of clinicians preferred the IdentityShield over traditional wristbands.

The first Android device included NFC in 2010 and Apple followed in 2014, meaning NFC has been present since iPhone 6.

Creating a digital twin takes a couple of hours for emergency cases and a couple of days for surgical oncology cases.

Fifteen years ago, Rick Satava proposed at SAGES that patients would get a CT scan at check-in, surgeons would practice the operation on a robot the day before, and then the robot would perform the saved operation autonomously.