Abstract
This paper examines how haptic technology, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence help to reduce the physical contact in medical training during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Notably, any mistake made by the trainees during the education process might lead to undesired complications for the patient. Therefore, training of the medical skills to the trainees have always been a challenging issue for the expert surgeons, and this is even more challenging in pandemics. The current method of surgery training needs the novice surgeons to attend some courses, watch some procedure, and conduct their initial operations under the direct supervision of an expert surgeon. Owing to the requirement of physical contact in this method of medical training, the involved people including the novice and expert surgeons confront a potential risk of infection to the virus. This survey paper reviews recent technological breakthroughs along with new areas in which assistive technologies might provide a viable solution to reduce the physical contact in the medical institutes during the COVID-19 pandemic and similar crises.
Highlights
After the outbreak of COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, this virus and its mutations has rapidly spread out in the world
The Medical Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic medical training in the traditional way is accomplished by a medical student through attending some training courses, watching how the procedure is performed by a trainer, performing the procedure under supervision of a trainer, and at the final stage, independently performing the procedure
Traditional education takes place in hospitals and on real patients, which face several problems during the COVID-19 pandemic: the hospital environment is contaminated with the virus, hospital staff and physicians are very busy and tired and have less training capacity, prolonged hospital stays of patients to train students put them at greater risk for exposure to the virus, especially if complication occurs by a resident who does not have gained sufficient skills during the training procedure
Summary
After the outbreak of COVID-19 virus in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, this virus and its mutations has rapidly spread out in the world. The existing assistive technologies for medical training are reviewed in a COVID-19 situation. In spite of the existing literature on COVID-19, our main focus is surgery training technologies that help to reduce physical contact during this and other similar pandemics. Less studies have given special attention on remote training and remote skill assessment which is the subject of this paper. For this reason, this paper addresses scientific methods, technologies and solutions to reduce the amount of physical contact in the medical environments that is due to training reasons.
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