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<p>Health Education England (HEE)’s technology enhanced learning (TEL) Programme has
developed a national framework for the delivery of simulation-based education. This
framework is now in place and being applied across the country.</p><p>Part of this
work has involved extensive stakeholder engagement and through this engagement, a
number of examples of where virtual reality has successfully been used to support
learning have emerged. In particular, HEE East of England is piloting facilitated
virtual reality learning for 1,200 Foundation Programme trainee doctors in 20 critical
emergency scenarios in the East of England. This enables real time practice in a safe
simulated environment with both facilitated supervised training and also personal
unlimited access. A careful evaluation will be carried out, looking at both the trainee
experience of learning through virtual reality and their subsequent improvement in
confidence in urgent care management.</p><p>In addition, the TEL Programme has supported
the development of a virtual reality lab in Torbay, which is now in its second year.
Successful examples of virtual reality in distraction therapy have emerged, particularly
in paediatrics and podiatry, with clear benefits to patients undergoing the clinical
intervention and costs savings because of the reduction in general anaesthetics.</p><p>The
TEL Programme has now set up an academic partnership with Leeds Institute and through
this partnership, will be developing a set of principles for the use of virtual reality
in education and training. Through this work, the TEL Programme will be developing
a cohesive approach for evaluation of outcomes, which will then enable consistency
in evidence gathering.</p>
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