An immersive virtual reality platform for medical education: introduction to the Medical Readiness Trainer

fYear

2000

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2000

Abstract

The Medical Readiness Trainer (MRT) constitutes a medical education environment in which the integration of fully immersive virtual reality with highly advanced medical simulation technologies and medical databases exposes the trainee to the vast range of complex medical situations. MRT allows the simultaneous interaction of medically appropriate context, situational realism, and psychological stressors necessary for the dynamic acquisition of manual and diagnostic medical skills. A network of MRTs will allow the creation of collaborative virtual environments essential for training of both individual and team/unit medical skills, and for training of medical management and logistic support functions.

Keywords

biomedical education; computer based training; courseware; digital simulation; groupware; medical administrative data processing; medical computing; teaching; virtual reality; MRT; Medical Readiness Trainer; collaborative virtual environments; complex medical situations; diagnostic medical skills; dynamic acquisition; fully immersive virtual reality; highly advanced medical simulation technologies; immersive virtual reality platform; logistic support functions; medical databases; medical education environment; medical management; medically appropriate context; psychological stressors; simultaneous interaction; situational realism; team/unit medical skills; trainee; Collaboration; Databases; Educational technology; Environmental management; Management training; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical simulation; Psychology; Virtual environment; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2000. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0493-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2000.926804

Filename

926804