{"id":18485,"date":"2019-07-16T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18485"},"modified":"2019-07-16T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:27:42","slug":"game-platform-to-help-medical-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/game-platform-to-help-medical-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual game platform will help medical students attain practical skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new simulator platform, developed by EMS and Professor Stephen Duffull of the University of Otago School of Pharmacy in New Zealand, will <strong>help students in medical disciplines to develop their practical skills.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Medical education is loaded with a large amount of theory, but students rarely get the opportunity to practice theoretical lessons.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SimPHARM<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simpharm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">platform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is designed to suit the needs of medical students as they go through various courses of mostly academic tasks. To get an accurate representation of the clinical environment, <strong>the game simulator is designed to present students with real-life situations, and in real-time.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What does the platform offer?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The simulator aims to create an environment where students will be placed in close to real-life conditions. This means that while playing a simulator game on the platform, <strong>medical students will be testing and developing their decision-making skills.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SimPHARM<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/mcgraw-hill-and-renaissance-eservices-to-bring-online-education-for-doctors-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">another<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> technological innovation entering the world of medical education, which shows a significant trend of how new developments make the educational process more accessible and more productive.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>This video game simulator will allow students to work on their skills in terms of making the right decisions in a stressful environment<\/strong>, without having to feel the pressure of real-life situations. According to Anurag Singh, President and CEO of EMS:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to recent test uses of the platform, <strong>students find working with SimPHARM very helpful for their academic and professional development.<\/strong> This innovative approach to medical education has the potential to become a valuable piece of equipment in universities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new simulator platform, developed by EMS and Professor Stephen Duffull of the University of Otago School of Pharmacy in New Zealand, will help students in medical disciplines to develop their practical skills. Medical education is loaded with a large amount of theory, but students rarely get the opportunity to practice theoretical lessons.\u00a0 The SimPHARM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[491,907,1505,1535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}