Remote Learning

 

Background/Problem

University Multi-user Medical Online Training Initiative for Virtual Education (UM-Motive)
In order to strengthen the University and State of Minnesota's position as a health professional education and technology hub for our region, we propose to leverage our expertise in advanced medical modeling and VR simulation development with the capabilities that the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) provides.
Investment in developing the resources of such a relationship would broaden the reach and utilization of the simulation tools and modules within the University of Minnesota Medical School's American College of Surgeons Level 1 accredited SimPORTAL and CREST to the community. SimPORTAL and CREST have been working with MSI in developing a method by which practitioners from around the region could remotely share, rehearse and even practice critical portions of a patient's surgical procedure, or one similar to it prior to doing it in the operating room. Such an approach allows for both virtual and active mentorship as well as a platform to safely test novel surgical approaches.
VR simulation is an interdisciplinary research area that demands expertise and intense collaboration in surgical techniques and education, biomedical, biomechanical and electrical engineering, computer science and graphics and human-machine interface technology. Our remote access project is being proposed as a collaboration among University of Minnesota research units including CREST and MSI with support from SimPORTAL, departments within the Academic Health Center, the Center for Magnetic Imaging and the Medical Imaging Lab at Fairview University hospital, as well as our indurstrial partners. We can also envision involvement with the Medical Devices Center for hardware development in the future.

Team Members:

• Dr. Rob Sweet
• Nancy Rowe
• Dr. Yunhe Shen
• Dr. Nan Zhang
• Dr. Xiangmin Zhou