A new collaboration between Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) and the University’s Faculty of Education has pushed forward the vision of mixed reality-based medical training.
The project’s goal is to make regular, high-quality, and pertinent professional training more widely available for
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is developing HoloScenarios, its cutting-edge training tool based on realistic holographic patient situations. It is collaborating with the University of Cambridge and LA-based software startup GigXR.
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Dr. Arun Gupta, consulting anaesthetist at CUH and postgraduate education director at Cambridge University Health Partnership, is the project’s leader. He said that mixed reality is becoming more popular as a technique of simulation instructions.
Gupta said that as universities increase their purchasing, the demand for solutions that provide convenience and simplicity of MR-based education management. As universities increase their purchasing, the demand for solutions that provide convenience and simplicity of MR-based education management is also growing.
Students using Microsoft HoloLens MR headsets in the very same space may see one another in life whilst engaging with a realistic holographic simulation of a patient with multiple layers. This offers a one-of-a-kind setting in which doctors and nurses can easily learn and master critical momentary decision-making and how to provide suitable treatment options.
Medical educators may use similar sorts of headsets to influence patient reactions and also add some difficulties. They can capture findings and dialogues both in-person within group settings. The technology also allows them to disseminate information to learners situated anywhere in the world using the Internet.
Students may also view or participate in scenarios with patient holographs and assess the same using their iOS or Android devices. Based on this realistic factually correct and repeatable immersive education may now be consumed, provided, and distributed on a worldwide scale. The technology will now be accessible to institutions around the world for licencing purposes.
Together with the creation and distribution of the HoloScenarios offering, Professor Riikka Hofmann from the Faculty of Education, Cambridge, is conducting an assessment of technological innovation as a learning and teaching medium.
According to Hofmann, the study sought to uncover how these scenarios might effectively support medical learning. The research also explored how the technology can expedite the uptake of successful mixed reality education whilst guiding continuing development.
Hoffman anticipates that the mixed reality offering will enable organisations to guide the adoption of MR into their courses. The approach has to be similar to how institutions assess standard means such as textbooks, software, manikins, or models. This can enhance health outcomes.
Aniket Bharadwaj, a junior doctor, is among the first to test the revolutionary technology. He explained that earlier medical and emergency training was done with the help of actors getting into the roles of patients. However, such training became restricted due to the Covid-19 pandemic that forced learners to access information virtually.
Possessing a holographic participant that one can view, listen to, and engage with, is an intriguing experience that also enhances the learning capabilities of the students.
