TEACHING MEDICAL STUDENTS ABOUT HUMAN ANATOMY USING VIRTUAL REALITY: A NOVEL APPROACH

Abstract

To improve the quality of education, virtual reality is being used nowadays. Virtual reality-based teaching interventions are part of an interesting and new pedagogical research field with a lot of promise as a way to give effective feedback and boost learning gains. Using virtual reality for educational purposes, educational content is being expressed in the easiest way. Virtual reality provides for more personalized learning experiences outside of the lecture hall. In this paper, an application for medical students has been discussed. They will get some brief information about the human organs withouthaving to attend the dissection classes. The application has been developed with the help of Android Studio and Google VR SDK, which is a software development kit to view in virtual reality. The implementations for the application are Android Google VR SDK integration, model design for resources, and adding models in the SDK to view different VR images or videos. From this application, medical students will get a clear visual idea of human organs.