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- Title
New Wide Area Virtual Environment (WAVE) Medical Education.
- Authors
Goolsby, Craig; Vest, Ryan; Goodwin, Tress
- Abstract
Objective: Accomplish the first large-scale combat casualty training using multiple-modality hybrid simulation in the Uniformed Services University's one-of-a-kind three-dimensional Wide Area Virtual Environment (WAVE). Methods: 91 first-year medical students (MS1) completed a WAVE training session as part of their Combat Medical Skills course. In teams of 6 students, they treated two combat casualties with blast wounds (one a SimMan 3G, and another a standardized patient) during 15-minute scenarios in the WAVE. The WAVE is a unique medical simulation environment comprising an 8.000-square-foot virtual space composed of two pods surrounded by circumferential 9x 12-foot movie screens and a high-fidelity directional sound system. Students completed WAVE quality assurance surveys to describe their impressions. Results: 91 MS Is were trained in a 4.5-hour period (including pre- and post-briefs) without technical difficulties during this inaugural training experience. Student survey data indicated a strong desire for more WAVE training in the curriculum (2.9 on a 3-point Leikert scale), and a strong preference for training in the WAVE vs. traditional training methods (4.6 on a 5-point Leikert scale). Conclusions: The novel WAVE platform can be implemented successfully for combat casualty training and represents a significant technological advancement in simulated military medical training.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VIRTUAL classrooms; MILITARY medicine education; MEDICAL education; SIMULATION methods in medical education; GROUP work in education
- Publication
Military Medicine, 2014, Vol 179, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00310