Midwifery students use virtual reality to learn the stages of pregnancy with 3D female figure
MIDWIFERY students at the University of Newcastle are going beyond textbooks, dolls and diagrams to learn about the stages of pregnancy via a virtual window into the human body.
The world-first virtual reality technology, developed by the university’s School of Nursing and Midwifery and IT Innovation team, is giving students a visual insight into the internal stages of childbearing, and its effect on the human body.
“At the moment we teach with dolls and pelvises, and I can tell you firsthand from being a student, as well as an educator, the position of the placenta is one of the hardest things to learn, and yet it’s absolutely one of the most imperative things to know."
With a digital headset, students can explore and observe the gestational stages of a detailed, life-sized 3D female figure without any visual barriers.
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