Simulation in Health Sciences Education

The ANU Medical School TELT team hosted the inaugural Show and TEL event on 9 June. This was first in a series of professional development events the team will offer under the Show and TEL banner, where experts from ANU and beyond will share their innovative teaching practices and invite you to discuss new ideas.

The event, titled Virtual Reality in Health Education, featured a talk by Associate Professor Jane Frost from the University of Canberra followed by hands-on demonstrations of virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and a fishbowl panel on the Pedagogy and Practicalities of using VR in teaching. Together, over 25 academics, clinicians, learning designers, technologists and education officers attended the event face-to-face and via livestream.

One of the most exciting developments in virtual reality has been its rapid entry into medical education and healthcare, where researchers, doctors, a

If you're undergoing surgery, you want the best surgical team to collaborate on your case, no matter where they are. Surgeon and entrepreneur Nadine Hachach-Haram is developing a new system that helps surgeons operate together and train one another on new techniques -- from remote locations using low-cost augmented reality tools. Watch the system in action as she joins a surgeon in Minnesota performing a knee surgery, live on her laptop from the TED stage in New Orleans. As Hachach-Haram says: "Through simple, everyday devices that we take for granted, we can really do miraculous things." (This talk contains graphic images of surgery.)

New virtual training facilities and courses aim to offer aspiring healthcare professionals more high-tech hands-on experience alongside traditional teaching techniques.