NHS medical students now receive HOLOGRAMS training for the treatment of anaphylaxis and pneumonia –

World-first patient holograms to be used to train British medical students.

Doctors at Cambridge Addenbrooke Hospital will wear virtual reality headsets as part of their training and treat patients in realistic 3D.

The revolutionary technology will be used to teach a series of modules starting with respiratory and emergency medicine.

Students can see and interact with a multi-layered holographic patient by wearing headphones or using their smartphone or tablet.

Trainees will provide patients with medications, hook them up to ventilators, and read their vital signs.

Similar technology is already being used to bring music legends to life for one-of-a-kind concerts like Tupac, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston.

However, it is thought to be used for the first time in medical education.

Students will take a variety of modules using technology, the first of which is focused on respiratory diseases and emergencies. A holographic patient is treated with asthma, followed by anaphylaxis, pulmonary embolism, and pneumonia.

Similar technology has already been used to bring music legends back to life for one-of-a-kind concerts like Tupac, Michael Jackson, and Whitney Houston (pictured)

The new mixed reality training system, called HoloScenarios, was developed by Cambridge University Hospitals, Los Angeles-based software developer GigXR, and the University of Cambridge.

The developers say it can provide more flexible and cost-effective training than traditional face-to-face simulation, which requires more resources and costs to maintain labs and recruit patient actors.

Students will take a variety of modules using technology, the first of which is focused on respiratory diseases and emergencies.

A holographic patient is treated with asthma, followed by anaphylaxis, pulmonary embolism, and pneumonia.

Additional modules on heart and brain problems are also being developed.

The NHS says the technology will enable clinicians to improve their clinical skills through high-level decision making and therapeutic choices in real time.

Instructors can share scenarios, modify patient responses, uncover complications, and record observations and discussions while projecting the hologram into any educational setting, such as a classroom, hospital, or small campus.

And the technology will be globally accessible, meaning students will theoretically be able to take classes while working from home.

Dr. Arun Gupta, consultant anesthetist at CUH, who led the project, said the simulations will provide sensitive patients and real-time evolving scenarios that cannot currently be presented in medical education.

He said: “Mixed reality is increasingly being recognized as a useful method of simulator training.

“As organizations scale their offerings, the demand for platforms that provide usability and convenience to manage mixed reality learning is growing rapidly.

“GigXR has enabled instructors to better prepare students for observation and assessment with a clinically accurate simulation.

“With HoloScenarios, we are helping transform education from a mentor-based model to one where students around the world have equal access to the best skills to master invention-based clinical skills.”

Dr. Riikka Hofmann, associate professor of education at the University of Cambridge, said: “Mixed reality allows us to place all the necessary digital elements in the student’s physical space, whether it’s just a hologram patient or medical equipment. .

‘This makes the environment suitable for training. A state-of-the-art virtual emergency room isn’t useful if you’re practicing in a small rural hospital without this equipment: “The holographic simulations we do with the GigXR break that barrier.”

David King Lassman, founder of GigXR, said: “Ensuring the 360-degree preparation of instructors for clinical practice is a cornerstone for GigXR as it enables us to offer our clients a library of applications that provide solutions for students from their first course to further education. †

“Our first HoloScenarios module represents an incredibly powerful new way to use mixed reality for health education, with many more modules and new apps to follow soon.”