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Serious game Pulse : a Virtual Clinical Learning Lab for Health Care Training

by Monique

15 jan 2010

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INTERACTION HEALTHCARE, is the partner and integrator in France of the first immersive serious game for the trainign of healthcare professionals.

Pulse!! is an immersive virtual learning space for training health care professionals in clinical skills. Cutting-edge graphics recreate a lifelike, interactive, virtual environment in which civilian and military heath care professionals practice clinical skills in order to better respond to injuries sustained during catastrophic incidents, such as combat or bioterrorism.

Pulse!! is being developed in partnership with Texas A &M University – Corpus Christi and is funded from a federal grant from the Department of the Navy’s Office of Naval Research.

Objective:
Address the shortage of expert-level health care educators and respond to the changes in learning styles of current and future generations of students by embedding the clinical health care curriculum into an engaging, realistic simulation to create a wholly immersive virtual training environment.

Solution:
Cutting-edge 3D virtual hospital and lifelike patients provide a rich environment in which civilian and military health care professionals can practice clinical skills.

Technology:
Highly interactive and detailed 3D world with accurate physiology models. Fluid dynamics used to simulate blood flow in the human body.

3D healthcare immersive serious game virtual

Categories: ICT · Innovation

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