University of Leeds Leeds Institute of Medical Education …...Gareth Frith Technology Enhanced Learning Project Manager g.s.frith@leeds.ac.uk time.leeds.ac.uk What is Leeds Institute

University of Leeds

Leeds Institute of Medical Education

(LIME)

Immersive Technology

in

Medical Education

Leeds Digital Festival

Gareth Frith

Technology Enhanced Learning Project Manager

g.s.frith@leeds.ac.uk

time.leeds.ac.uk

What is Leeds Institute of Medical Education (LIME)

School of Medicine / Faculty of Medicine and Health

Responsible for curriculum and administration of Taught courses such as

• U/G Medicine and Surgery ~ 1300 students

• Anatomy - have dissection lab

• Clinical Skills and Simulation

• P/G Physicians Associate

• P/G Medical Education

Undertake research in Medical Education

Leeds School of

Medicine

Clinical Practice

placement locations

70% of student time is in

Clinical Placement in

healthcare facilities

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Technology in Medical Education

Topol Review

The Topol Review

Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future.

• how technological and other developments (including genomics, artificial intelligence, digital

medicine and robotics) are likely to change the roles and functions of clinical staff in all professions

over the next two decades

• what the implications of these changes are for the skills required by the professionals

filling these roles, identifying professions or sub-specialisms where these may be

particularly significant;

the consequences for the selection, curricula, education, training, development

and lifelong learning of current and future National Health Service staff.

Immersive technologies

Augmented Reality and 360 video

Virtual Reality

Mixed Reality

Augmented Reality and 360 degree video

Augmented Reality

Virtuali-tee

Virtual Tours 360 Video

Virtual Tours 360 Video

Info points

Virtual Tours 360 Video

embedded resources

e.g. crash trolley

Mixed Reality - HoloLens

Virtual and Augmented

Reality

• Clinical Skills using

HoloPatient® for Medicine,

Nursing and Dentistry

• Anatomy Teaching

• HoloHuman®

• Neuro Anatomy (LIME and

AUTH)

Virtual and Augmented

Reality

• Acute illness and other clinical

skills related patient cases

• Neuro Anatomy (Pathways)

teaching developed with

Aristotle University of

Thessiloniki (AUTH)

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality

• Access to areas of clinical

practice that are difficult for

students to experience

• Histo-pathology resources

used in teaching

Virtual Reality

• Histo-pathology resources

used in teaching

Virtual HistoPathology

• Histo-pathology resources

used in teaching medicine

• Hard to access areas of

clinical practice.

• development by LIME

Virtual Histopathology

Evaluation

• Large cohort – 250 users at one time

• Compared the desktop version with the VR version

• Pre- and post knowledge testing (21 simple questions)

• Post experience questionnaire (37 questions – Likert and free text)

Questions ?

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