IMMERSIVE SURGICAL EDU: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Haptics for Enhanced Surgical Training and Education

The surgical education learning process significantly relies on hands-on experience and the development of tactile abilities. Access to surgical training, however, is limited, and typical teaching techniques may not give the essential experience to acquire these abilities.

Immersive technologies, including VR and AR, offer the potential to improve surgical training by allowing learners to practice and perfect their abilities in a safe and controlled setting. 

Haptic feedback may allow students to experience a realistic simulation of surgical operations by giving them with a feeling of touch, helping them to gain the essential motor skills and confidence in real-world surgical scenarios.

The project aims to create an open-access resource for surgical trainees, educators, and researchers. To facilitate the application of the multi-modal framework in surgical education, the resource will comprise instructional films, interactive modules, and other educational resources. 

Project results:

• A compendium on applying immersive learning practices for medical study programmes.

• Immersive learning scenarios for a selected study programme.

• Design of the selected study programme by integrating the developed learning scenarios.

Projekto period: 2023-10-01 - 2025-09-30

Project Ref. No: 023-1-NO01-KA220-HED-000160462

Project partners:

• University of Adger (Norway) - project coordinator

• Kauno technologijos universitetas, Informatikos fakultetas (Lithuania)

• Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas (Lithuania)

• Universita degli Studi di Siena (Italy)

VšĮ „eMundus“ participates as an associate partner in the project to publicise the activities and results.

Project website: immersivesurgicaledu.eu