Walking through the bone with VR

Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) is now also using virtual reality in education. For the first time, a course on rheumatic and osteological diseases is being offered there using VR.

VR has long been in the Medicine arrived. Another example in connection with rheumatic osteological diseases proves it: students at JLU can now experience both the healthy anatomy and that of an inflammatory disease, for example of the wrist, in a special way under the guidance of Dr. Philipp Klemm: they walk the bone on a virtual walk.

The participants wear VR glasses that give them the impression that they are actually moving in the body.

"It's a very impressive and fascinating experience," says Prof. Dr Uwe Lange from the Kerckhoff Clinic, Professor of Internal Rheumatology, Osteology, Physical Medicine at JLU.

"Students and ultimately patients will benefit enormously from this in the future."

The software for the teaching scenario was developed at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in cooperation with Lilly Deutschland GmbH and kindly made available to JLU by Dr Arnd Kleyer's team.

"We are sure that the use of this new medium will make a lasting contribution to training and open up new learning opportunities," says Dr Johannes Lang, initiator of NWTmed together with Dr Holger Repp. Repp adds: "It is also important to us that future doctors are sensitised to the topic of digitalisation through dealing with innovative technologies. This applies both to their own training, but also to new ways in therapy and education, which the doctors of tomorrow will help to shape themselves."

Source: innovations-report