Abstract:
Since the emergence of Covid-19, global healthcare has seen significant disruption with frontline medical staff and trainees being redeployed to manage patients with the virus. This has impacted on the healthcare simulation training programmes of thousands of trainee nurses, doctors and allied health professionals. Health Education England (HEE) has been working with trainees to continue to offer them high quality education and training that would normally be delivered in-situ or through physical simulations. Increasingly, HEE have turned to immersive Mixed Reality (XR) clinical simulation technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) to replicate these learning experiences in a Covid-safe environment. In this presentation, Richard Price, the Learning Technologies Advisor, will share experiences of managing training during the pandemic and discuss how immersive technologies are being used to support the training recovery, and the long-term implications of this across healthcare in the United Kingdom. See the NHS HEE Simulation Website for more!
Learning Objectives:
- Understand healthcare simulation provision in the United Kingdom.
- Understand how education and training is delivered for healthcare professionals in the UK through simulation.
- Describe how immersive technologies and clinical simulation have been critical in the delivery of healthcare education during the pandemic