In the field of emergency and disaster medicine at Tokyo Medical University, we focused on various issues in clinical training and started developing VR teaching materials from early on.Recently, in order to utilize the training failure due to the corona sickness in student education, students are also participating in the development of VR teaching materials for clinical training, and since January 2021, they have been introduced as supplementary teaching materials for clinical training in critical care centers.
In the clinical training of the critical care center that accepts critically ill and urgent patients, in the conventional field-based clinical training, various treatments are performed at multiple locations at the same time, so students have to be passive. There was a problem of "I can't see it, I don't understand it, so it's boring".
In order to solve these problems, Tokyo Medical University decided to introduce VR teaching materials developed by Professor Jun Oda in the field of emergency and disaster medicine. The introduction of VR teaching materials was a concept that had been planned for a long time, and the need for it accelerated from the situation where students could not take the training itself due to infection control in the corona sickness, and the development progressed at a stretch.
The VR teaching materials are those taken by 360-degree cameras and commentary on the procedures and staff movements that are performed simultaneously by staff such as multiple doctors and nurses.Students can observe the procedure and staff movements over and over again from various standing positions and angles, and can actively learn.In addition, the faculty member can grasp where the student is looking by mirroring, and can "attention" to the procedure to be seen.
At Tokyo Medical University, students who will actually use the teaching materials also participate in the development conference when developing the contents of VR teaching materials, and it has developed into an initiative in which faculty members and students are united.We have created "pre-learning materials" for students to use VR teaching materials from the student's perspective, and since January 2021, we have introduced them as supplementary teaching materials for clinical practice of lifesaving (1th to 4th grades of medical school).
