VITooLs: learning difficult concepts in pharmacology

VITooLs is a virtual reality training platform that simulates real-world scenarios, to help learners grasp complex concepts and practices. It provides teachers with the ability to scaffold learning material, whereby learning materials from different areas and levels of a course can be incorporated into one simulation.
The platform is designed primarily for teaching and training in pharmacology, which is an integral discipline of pharmacy, medicine, nursing, paramedicine and other biomedical sciences. Currently in prototype form, one training module simulates the learner administering adrenaline to a patient, which can’t be done in a laboratory setting or on human test subjects. Another prototype demonstrates the effect of drugs on a patient at the cellular level.
The intended users of the platform are university students; however, it can also be used to retrain and upskill practitioners.
Team: Dr Rima Caccetta, Associate Professor Lisa Tee (Curtin Medical School), Associate Professor Francesco Mancini, Mr Jonathan Pillai, Mr Justin Owen (School of Design and the Built Environment), Associate Professor Aneesh Krishna (School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences), Mr Matt Reed (Faculty of Humanities).
Learn more: curtin.edu/xmmvpp