ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Virtual reality and other tech-enabled digital tools are entering the healthcare education arena with a promise to make clinician training and assessment more flexible, efficient, and user-friendly. One of the most active pioneers in this space is medtech giant Johnson & Johnson. J&J’s professional education unit, the Johnson & Johnson Institute, is embracing a variety of digital learning tools, ranging from virtual and augmented reality to AI-driven online learning tools.
The video gaming industry may have brought virtual reality (VR), and its close cousin augmented reality (AR; see Box), into the mainstream, but others are taking this technology well beyond gaming and into new domains, one of which is healthcare.
