MedCity News January 24, 2024
Luke Willett

Virtual reality reduces the cost of training while also improving learning efficiency and knowledge retention. It’s not just universities and medical students that are embracing VR technology for learning. I travel all over the world to work with healthcare teams implementing VR and have observed, that a growing number of hospitals are using it for continuing education.

There were roughly 90 first-year medical students that had gathered in the lab. The instructor was about to take them through their first dissection in a human anatomy course. For most students, this was the first time they were seeing a medical procedure up close.

Traditionally, this class would be taught live and in-person. A smaller number of students would crowd around the...

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