Oxford Medical Simulation

““At the beginning, there was that initial disappointment from the students, you know, ‘We’re not on placement. We want to do clinical placement hours.’ But this week the students say the best day is when they’re taking part in the OMS virtual scenarios.””

“It’s particularly beneficial that candidates can engage with desktop scenarios repeatedly. This allows them to become familiar with medical terminology, procedures, and equipment that are new to them, all within environments that simulate the actual conditions they’ll face here in Canada.”

“The integration of VR into our assessment processes has significantly reduced the waiting times for newcomers eager to start working in our healthcare systems. This technology not only accelerates their entry but also supports their continuous professional development while they are still in their home countries.”

“Summing up the student experience, Francesca said, “By the end of it, I felt really empowered and encouraged”.”

““I can use this software to support a first year student who’s learning the basics of nursing all the way up to an experienced specialist critical care nurse, give them completely different scenarios with different expectations, but I’m still using the same software.””

“Critically, this has not come at the cost of the student experience. Quite the opposite is true: “In many ways, the student experience was enhanced”.”

“Per Rennison, the data and analytics provided by the OMS platform has been “really invaluable”.”

“According to Michael Rowe, Associate Professor (Digital Innovation in Health and Social Care), this approach “made a massive difference to the way we think about assessment in this program”.”

““The ability to create complex, interactive, automated scenarios is unique – that is one ability that OMS Create has that none of the other softwares in the medical training space currently have.””

““What we’re really excited about now is the use of OMS Create because that will allow us to create the context-specific training which is what we really need here.””

““She felt much more prepared for an emergency she was in in real life, and she attributed that to her experience with the OMS code cart module.””

““The advantage of a virtual simulation is that it creates a de facto standard because it encodes the information, it’s easily repeatable, and it’s much more scalable.””

““We expect VR simulation to take its place alongside physical simulation as a standard means for new people to train in and also experienced clinicians to learn new things.””

““It’s the best way you can have students take care of four to five patients safely””

““Objectively, virtual reality is an environment where every student has the chance to participate versus a traditional simulation in which there are roles assigned. This allows students to be brave and take risks safely that they may not have otherwise.””

““This doesn’t have to be an add-on,” says Dawne-Marie, “This is where you look at what you already do, what isn’t giving you the best value for your money, and you let that stuff go.””

““The key to high-fidelity simulation isn’t really the simulation itself; it’s the debrief time and the opportunity to process the scenario. The beauty of OMS is that students can see what they did wrong or right and immediately take that information back into the scenario and apply it.””

““You should see how excited the students are when they go in for the second time and see how much their score improved in only 90 minutes,””

““Within 30 seconds, I forgot I had the headset on,” says Dawne-Marie, “I immediately knew where we could integrate this into the curriculum.””

““The thing we really wanted to address was not psychomotor skills. The feedback from our clinical partners was around decision-making and clinical reasoning—that is what we want to focus on, that is what we wanted to enhance.””

““OMS is a company that can take us forward.””

““[Students] are so immersed in these scenarios…They are highly engaged, and they want to continue learning more and more.””

““Learners enjoy VR & OMS because it…builds up their confidence. It allows them to make mistakes where they can learn from them – in a safe environment.””

““Oxford Medical Simulation is a system that is so relevant in today’s nursing role.””

“There’s a realness to it that I think really enhances the clinical picture that we’re trying to present in classrooms.”