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Virtual Reality
VR medical training resources including best practice, product demonstrations, latest research, virtual reality in healthcare education conferences and more!
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Kaplan’s i-Human Patients Launches Undergraduate Nursing Simulated Virtual Patient Cases
Kaplan Test Prep recently launched the addition of Undergraduate Nursing Cases for their virtual patient platform: i-Human Patients, The Case…
Surgical Simulation Industry First: HaptX Gloves Provide Haptic Feedback for VR Training with Fundamental Surgery
In what may be an absolute first for the surgical simulation industry, Fundamental Surgery just demonstrated the ability to integrate…
How Virtual Reality Trains Situational Awareness in Healthcare Simulation
Virtual Reality provides the ideal tool for healthcare simulation situational awareness training because it engages multiple learning systems in the…
VERA Shows Us the Future of Healthcare Simulation Communications Training @IMSH2019: VR Patients with AI
Over the last three days, thousands of healthcare simulation champions from around the world came together at IMSH 2019 to…
IMSH 2019 Day 1 Megathread – Opening & Sharot Keynote Live Stream
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare 2019 opens today in San Antonio Texas to…
ASPIH Vendor Video: Immersive Interactive Turns Sim Lab Into Any Environment
Today we begin a week of Vendor Video recaps from 2018’s Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) event! Covering…
XVR Simulation Provides Incident Command Training to Emergency Teams Around the World
XVR Simulation is among the world’s leading developers of incident command simulation technology with over 200 educators in 32 countries…
University of Newcastle Australia Creates Healthcare Learning VR Simulations
VR Training has a strong future in Healthcare Simulation, as the University of Newcastle Australia has demonstrated with two new…
VR Simulation Training Is Now A Reality with ‘Fire in the OR’ from Health Scholars
Health Scholars has launched the first commercially available virtual reality (VR) training simulation for operating room fire prevention and management to…
Jacob and Lois Mol Cardiovascular Simulation Center Offers Unique Training Space
The Jacob and Lois Mol Cardiovascular Simulation Center opened its doors in August 2017 which serves as a clinical training…
Verge Covers How Haptic Feedback is Making VR Surgery Feel Real
Recently the popular website Verge covered the recent US launch of FundamentalVR, whose founders compare the realism of their product…
Is Substance Abuse Treatment Possible Through Simulated Environments in Virtual Reality?
Can we treat substance abuse through Virtual Reality technology? Today’s Guest Author Patrick Bailey submitted an article to share how…