Mixed Reality supporting Advanced Medical Education – a new method of teaching medical skills Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mixed Reality supporting Advanced Medical Education – a new method of teaching medical skills

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Research and innovation; Health and wellbeing; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

OBJECTIVES
The primary goal is to allow organisations to develop and reinforce networks, increase their capacity to operate at transnational level, share and confront ideas, practices and methods in innoavative filed, which is Mixed Reality (MR) for educational purpose. The simulation of medical procedures through MR system offers an opportunity to train medical students, paramedics and doctors across a range of specialists in a safe (risk-free), realistic and repeatable environment. It eliminates harmful consequences to patients and offers repeatable procedures.
Mixed Reality specific Strategic Partnership formats may be realized under School Exchange Partnerships umbrella. The projects can use mobility opportunities for students and staff to help the participating medical schools develop as organisations and increase their ability to work in international projects. Combination mobility and physical exchanges with virtual cooperation is strongly encouraged.

HORIZONTAL PRIORITIES
– Supporting opportunities for all medicine students (who cannot participate in on-site exercises for their personal health reasons and, for example, due to social isolation during a
pandemic) in acquiring and developing key competences, including clinical skills, for example: history-taking, physical examination, clinical investigations, using diagnostic reasoning,
procedural perfection, effective communication, team work and professionalism.
– Supporting teachers, medical doctors working with students, educational leaders and medical staff in the use of advanced teaching and e-learning methods using a MR (VR and AR).

TEACHING AND ASSESSING CLINICAL SKILLS BASED ON MIXED REALITY:
1. Teaching human anatomy
2. Assessing of clinical skills
3. Teaching surgical procedures from a first-person perspective
4. Trauma room simulation
5. Psychological assessment of using mixed reality

VIRTUAL PATIENTS BASED ON MIXED REALITY:
Proper medical training is not easy and cheap. Virtual patients provide the opportunity to practice interactive skills such as taking a patient’s history, diagnosing medical disorders and prescribing medications while receiving quantitative and qualitative feedback. Research and development efforts continue to expand the world of MR medical training by enhancing the readiness of medical trainees to interact successfully with real patients, increasing the availability of training resources for larger numbers of trainees, and increasing patient safety.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 449165 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI & Country: PL

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE
• STICHTING KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT
• UNIVERZITA PALACKEHO V OLOMOUCI
• ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FERRARA