Virtual reality as a novel teaching aid at our medical faculty

The team of the Laboratory of Cancer Treatment and Tissue Regeneration of the Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, Charles University, have joined an Erasmus+ project called MedTrain3DModsim, which has recently been launched. The project aims at improving undergraduate and postgraduate education and training in medicine through the use of 3D models. The scope of the project thus expands the long-term collaboration of the Laboratory with the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, in computationally assisted oncosurgery to the level of teaching and, also, to an international scale. The 3D models developed within the project will address specific anatomical and pathological features of complicated oncological diagnoses and they will be implemented both in a physical form of 3D printing and in virtual reality and augmented reality applications. The project is co-funded by the European Erasmus+ programme and coordinated by a team from Turkish Hacettepe University. Besides Charles University, the project partners include University Roma Tre (Italy), Chosun University (South Korea) and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece).

On July 1st and 2nd, 2017, the Biomedical Center will host 2nd Transnational Meeting of the MedTRain3DModsim project. The meeting will be accompanied by an introduction of the interdisciplinary team of the Laboratory of Cancer Treatment and the Faculty of Applied Sciences to the other project partners, resulting in a potential widening of international research collaboration as well. For 2018 a pilot teaching course developed within the project is planned to take place at the Biomedical Center, introducing the results of the MedTRain3DModsim project to Czech medical community.

Should you want to learn more about the project, you are welcome to browse its official website www.medtrain3dmodsim.eu, facebook page or to join the community of the project and receive the latest news and updates at www.medtrain3dmodsim.eu/join-us.

doc. MUDr. Václav Liška, Ph.D.
Ing. Petr Hošek, Ph.D.

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