Alternate Realities Help Medical Education And Training During COVID-19

With the need to limit physical contact amidst the pandemic, the whole world turned to virtual solutions to reprise their daily activities. Zoom and Slack became the new workplace; and even medical consultations were increasingly conducted online. However, by turning indoors, aspiring healthcare professionals were negatively impacted since hands-on practices and training were limited, if not impossible. In Scotland, dental students had to repeat a whole year due to insufficient clinical exposure. In particular, they could not practise aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) enough. The latter were limited due to their potential to facilitate COVID-19’s spread with airborne droplets created. AGPs are part of a significant portion of dental treatments and without enough practice with those procedures, dental students can’t graduate. But it’s not only dental students who have been impacted in this way. In Taiwan, a study showed that those in emergency medicine residency training programs saw fewer patients per hour than during pre-pandemic times. This decrease in patient volume subsequently leads to reduced clinical practice for the trainees. Since a physician’s expertise relies on exposure to vast amounts of patient cases, having less physical experience might affect their performance. So how about taking a page from the “new normal” and replacing that missing physical training with a virtual one? A recent independent study even found promising results when or...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Biotechnology E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Medical Education Virtual Reality Surgery VitraMed DentSim Simulator orthopedics stud Source Type: blogs