Collaborative Virtual Surgery Training Using Your Device Could Be Just a Click Away

"COVID-19 hasn’t just delayed elective medical procedures and healthcare screenings—it may also be complicating surgical training provided by medical device company representatives. “Reps have been using Powerpoint over Zoom,” said Sam Glassenberg. But such an approach could lack the interaction typically need for surgical instruction.
With an Emmy-award-winning background in video game development, Glassenberg founded Level Ex and has already made an impact with doctor-training video games such as Pulm Ex, an MDEA-winning mobile video game for training pulmonologists. Now he and his team have set out to change surgical training.
ven before COVID-19 hit, “There’s been a massive gap in what gaming can do and how we’re training doctors,” Glassenberg told MD+DI. Surgical training, for instance, involves “guideline-based decision-making, but flowcharts are hard to memorize,” he told MD+DI. “Surgeons learn by making mistakes. We can help them learn virtually by allowing them to see whether their decisions help patient outcomes.”
Level Ex has launched Virtual Technique Guides, described by the company as a “collaborative surgical training platform [that] applies the multiplayer interactivity of cloud gaming to enable surgeons to perform virtual procedures with medical device sales representatives over the same web conferencing platform.” Glassenberg will share the potential of such technology in the upcoming BIOMEDigital session, Performing Multi-User Virtual Surgery over Zoom: Enabling Device Sales through Collaborative Surgical Training, Wednesday, November 4 at 2:30pm - 3:00pm EST..." Lire la suite