Description

There can be few more compelling use cases for VR than ones that help to prevent suffering and pain. Today the World Health Org estimates that 5,000,000,000 people suffer through lack of access to good surgical skills. The reason for this, surgeons are a scarce resource that take 8+ years to train and still lack many of the basic skills to perform. It is in part why every year in the US alone over 400,000 people die because of medical error (source: John Hopkins).

VR holds the answer. It can dramatically lower the cost and accelerate delivery of education. It can provide a safe, measurable place for surgeons to rehearse and refine skills. It can provide unique and deep data insights into performance, decisioning and skills that ultimately will make patients better informed (to choose their surgeons) and provide access to surgical skills in developing countries.

In this talk Vicky will explore the need case, examine the technology and provide application case studies that come from the roll out of Fundamental Surgery, the global leading VR surgical education platform.

Speakers

Seb Canniff

Chief Experience Officer , FundamentalVR