GigXR partners with NUS Medicine to deliver holographic clinical scenarios for Gastroenterology training
Published: 25 Oct 2023
NUS Medicine has partnered GigXR, Inc., a global provider of holographic healthcare training, to introduce a new gastrointestinal module for the award-winning HoloScenarios application.
Created to better prepare medical and nursing students in diagnosing and treating acute gastrointestinal diseases, the application, HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal, uses mixed reality to simulate the patient’s journey, presenting hyperrealistic holographic simulated patients and medical equipment to be used in any physical learning environment, accessed anywhere in the world. It goes beyond linear step-based training traditionally seen with virtual reality (VR), branching logic to catalyze variance in learning experiences.
From taking basic medical history to performing invasive testing and emergency procedures, the new module empowers students to master vital medical decision-making and manual skills as they would see them in real-life clinical scenarios and patient care.
HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal is created in collaboration with renowned medical professionals and educators from NUS Medicine who specialize in the fields of Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery and holographic medical training.
The module is delivered by the Gig Immersive Learning Platform, the enterprise-scale platform enabling the creation, curation, and sharing of immersive training applications and modules made by the world’s preeminent healthcare institutions and MR developers.
“Gastrointestinal pathologies can be complex and challenging to diagnose. This module will allow learners to form a deeper understanding and appreciation of the gastrointestinal tract, especially the three-dimensional understanding of anatomy and body functions,” said Associate Professor Alfred Kow Wei Chieh from the Department of Surgery and Assistant Dean (Education) at NUS Medicine.
“We believe mixed reality is the next evolution in healthcare training, and collaborating with immersive platform innovators like GigXR helps us to bring this vital content to more learners globally and, ultimately, improve patient care,” said A/Prof Kow.
Caption: With HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal, students can interact with the holographic simulated patients, medical equipment, instructors, and one another.
With HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal, students can interact with the holographic simulated patients, medical equipment, instructors, and one another. This allows them to master both technical and soft skills, such as patient empathy and team communication, in hyper-realistic, safe-to-fail environments that reduce cognitive load.
Unlike virtual reality, its ability to simulate fully realised clinical scenarios also enable the delivery of enhanced realism, training students to more accurately diagnose and treat acute gastrointestinal diseases.
NUS joins the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust, University of Michigan, and Morlen Health, a subsidiary of Northwest Permanente, P.C., as the world-class institutions partnering with GigXR to co-create holographic healthcare training.
These simulations include modules centered around Respiratory diseases, Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Neurology scenarios, and now, with NUS, Gastrointestinal diseases.
Read more in the press release here.
