This post was updated Jan. 16 at 1:25 a.m. UCLA Health’s Rosenfeld Hall is using novel technology – from virtual reality devices to human-like animatronics – to improve teaching for medical students.

Virtual reality is starting to pay off in the medical field, as one major VR pilot test is being expanded to train more doctors. In 2016, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) partnered with Facebook ...

I’m the attending physician in a pediatric trauma room, and my patient, a girl who looks to be about 12, is going into anaphylactic shock. “Do something,” her mother screams. I check the girl’s ...

Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is using Smileyscope’s virtual reality tools to put patients at ease during needle-based procedures. One of the most popular VR experiences is an underwater ...

VR healthcare training company Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) has unveiled this week a partnership with Oxford University that will see medical students use its technology. Their platform will now ...

vrClinicals for Nursing continues to transform multi-patient, virtual reality simulations with AI innovations vrClinicals for Nursing adds conversational AI - allowing students to have more in depth ...

Limited access to adequate cancer surgery training is one of the driving forces behind global inequities in surgical cancer care. Affordable virtual reality (VR) surgical training could enhance ...

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Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center unveiled a virtual reality mindfulness program in September, allowing patients, hospital staff or visitors to relax at the facility, according to The Inquirer.

The developed PHSMCC curriculum will include a variety of mission profiles, including ocean personnel recovery missions such as the one depicted here. Image from a simulated virtual environment used ...

NewsVoir Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], October 7: MediSim VR has launched Uttarakhand's first Center of Excellence in AI and VR-based Medical Simulation at HIMS. This pioneering initiative reflects ...