With EMS classrooms sitting empty and hands-on learning on hold, Emergency Medical Service educators are scrambling for solutions to deploy rapid response training to healthcare providers and first responders amid the global pandemic of COVID-19. Thankfully, a recent research shared here shows how Virtual Reality training can reduce requirements on EMS student time in classrooms [...]

Health Scholars is giving away $1,000,000 in free grant support to the first 14,000 healthcare educators who can demonstrate an immediate need for desktop-based ACLS Training. This massive response to the COVID-19 pandemic is designed to quickly support healthcare simulation and medical education, training, or patient safety departments which need to prepare learners for Advanced [...]

Unveiled today, VRpatients is an immersive virtual patient platform perfect for educating and training EMS first responders, either online or through Virtual Reality (VR). EMS Programs looking to immediately provide distance education and training opportunities should absolutely learn more about the just-launched VRpatients platform. Born out of the former product name Virtual Education Systems, VRpatients [...]

VRPatients is a physiologically-based clinical simulation training platform that immerses a healthcare provider or first responder into actual case scenarios. Headquartered in Wilmington, Ohio, the VRPatients healthcare simulation training platform allows learners to interview, assess, diagnose and treat patients in real-time. This technology offers many advantages that traditional classroom training alone cannot provide.

VRpatients, and its [...]