Virtual reality has found a new role: Teaching doctors to deal with patients

Medical students and junior doctors are increasingly learning to practise medicine in VR

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/03/10/journal-of-applied-instructional-design-jaid/

While COVID is driving clinical learning to VR, the teaching of human anatomy — which typically takes place in the early years of a medical degree — has already shifted to virtual reality in some universities. Case Western Reserve University’s medical school, for example, had been teaching anatomy on campus through content on Microsoft Hololens, rather than by dissecting cadavers as many universities do. Now, with students unable to come onto campus, the university has shipped headsets to students at home so they can continue learning at home.

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