加拿大’s first VR medical training centre

Collaborating with SimForHealth and HTC VIVE, Queen’s is Training the Physicians of the Future.

资源：SimForHealth

“有一段时间，医生在患者中进行了第一个程序，并对患者进行了大部分学习时，”女王卫生科学临床仿真中心的校长董事Dan Howes博士说。“虚拟现实为我们提供了令人兴奋的新机会，以实际模拟各种临床情况。我们希望学习者在虚拟环境中制定所有初学者错误，而不是真正的患者。“女王的教育工作者将研究虚拟现实（VR）对学习的影响，探索如何有效地使用，为未来的课程和课程制定教育内容。根据Howes博士的说法，“结果将是一个更安全，更有效的医疗培训。”

Queen’s partners in this venture bring a wealth of experience in VR, healthcare, and education. SimforHealth is a European company focused on digital solutions for improving the training of healthcare professionals. The company developed MedicActiV, the VR software platform that the centre will use. HTC, makers of the HTC VIVE and VIVE Pro, delivers the best premium VR experience available and is one of the world’s top VR headset systems.

Construction on the facility and VR simulation will begin this fall in the Faculty of Health Sciences Clinical Simulation Centre at Queen’s. The new space is scheduled to open in January 2019.

In the simulation case provided by SimforHealth, students will be immersed in a hospital and play the role of a physician taking care of a patient who has been admitted to the emergency room for chest pain.

Interest in using VR technology for medical education has been growing rapidly in recent years. By building the first VR Medical Training Centre in Canada, Queen’s is positioning itself at the forefront of this movement. Initially, the centre will be used primarily for undergraduate medical education. In the future Queen’s plans to use the centre in all phases of medical education, including postgraduate specialty training.