Virtual reality will help educate future doctors

Teachers of the medical school at Stanford University are going to introduce virtual reality technology in the process of teaching students. Practitioners will also be able to improve their skills with VR.

How it will help

Virtual reality will allow us to consider the anatomy of a person in a voluminous form, using a special interactive simulator. Physicians will now be easier and more convenient to learn to identify and treat diseases. Zlatko Devchic, an Interventional Radiology Officer at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says:

"The treatment of aneurysm of the splenic artery can be very difficult because of the nature of the disease and the anatomical features of the individual patients. The new platform will allow you to view the anatomy of the body in three-dimensional form, as if the organs are directly in front of us, which can help plan the treatment more quickly and carefully, and prepare the necessary equipment and tools. The new application of virtual reality technology using images and visualization system displays the patient's body with a breakthrough visualization quality. "

In addition, VR technology can make a three-dimensional computed tomography, which will help to study the disease more thoroughly, without resorting to operations.

"Thus, we can conduct a preliminary examination, which is an extremely important step in the successful treatment of the patient, so the value of VR is difficult to overestimate. The new technology gives us a completely different perspective on treatment and planning of operations. "

Source: EurekAlert