Medical Learning Through Simulations With Immersive Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Devices

Abstract

Different examples of the use of recent technologies, based on virtual reality and augmented reality techniques, for the learning of medical students are presented. The use of different glasses, both virtual reality and augmented reality, as well as gloves with movement sensors, allow the user to enter a scenario very close to the real one, resulting in an improvement and optimisation of their learning. The use of these resources in different areas of medicine facilitates the acquisition of skills, for example in cardiac auscultation training in more dynamic learning of human anatomy, with three-dimensional images, or learning protocols for virtual surgical approaches, among many other possibilities. The satisfaction of the users who handled these devices was excellent, acquiring, in very short periods of time, practical skills in many of the actions carried out with these technologies.