Recently, Immersive Learning Factory, an educational technology company, has launched a VR (virtual reality) solution to train veterinary nurses.
The Background…
Currently, students of veterinary nursing feel like they do not get enough practical training due to time and resource constraints.
Meanwhile, the veterinary schools need to spend and invest a lot on the physical equipment to conduct their trainings. Furthermore, they need more training space if they plan to scale up their programs.
What is the VR Solution for Vet?
Working closely with The College of Animal Welfare (CAW), The Immersive Learning Factory has successfully launched the Companion Animal & Equine VR OSCEs Training Programs.
For those not familiar with medical terms, OCSE stands for “Observed Structured Clinical Examination” and it is very helpful in medical education because they allow students to practice and demonstrate their clinical skills in a standardized medical scenario.
With the VR program created by Immersive Learning Factory and CAW, they have created the OSCE tasks in virtual reality platform to form a suite of modernized training tools for veterinary nurses.
The Benefit…
By using this VR solution, the veterinary nurses can practice the hyper-realistic scenarios for their tasks without limits in a virtual clinical skills environment.
The students can practice as many times as they want without worrying about running out of time, equipment, or resources.
Just to add, the main objective of this VR solution is to increase muscle memory to further help students completing their OSCE examinations. Furthermore, this can also help to reduce knowledge decay among the students.
With this solution, schools do not need to spend a lot like before on physical equipment. Another good thing is that, the schools can scale up their programs without finding more training space since it can be done virtually.
Our Opinion…
We see it as a great way for vet students to practice especially when dealing with dangerous animals like chimpanzee, snake, raccoon, wolf and many others.
At least, the veterinary nurses can test their knowledge and skills using the digital creatures to get a feel and do many trial and errors before performing it on the real animals.
Lastly…
If you are in vet industry and would like to know more about how VR technology can help you, you can read it at:
- “New virtual reality training for veterinary nurses” from Vet Practice Magazine.
- Veterinary Nurse Training page from Immersive Learning Factory.