Trainees from all health professionals

The Virtual Reality Education Center (VREC) of the Department of Medical Education at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital promotes holistic care virtual reality teaching and learning. Through collaboration with medical professionals, the VREC creates immersive virtual reality learning modules tailored to the needs of each profession in order to promote the achievement of holistic care learning goals and to further enhance the quality of clinical care. The VREC's holistic care virtual reality learning modules are the first of their kind in the nation, with the largest number of learning modules and the best education results. “Advance Decisions” is recognized as a world-class virtual reality learning module, and “Walking with You - What to Do in Postmortem Care” is the most widely experienced learning module in the country. The VREC has published the most papers and presentations on holistic care virtual reality education domestically and internationally. In addition, the director of VREC and members of the VREC have been invited by major teaching hospitals and related academic institutions to share their experiences. The VREC has also received the National Healthcare Quality Award (NHQA) Medal and Special Award in the Smart Healthcare category. The Director of the VREC was awarded the Associate Fellowship of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) in 2024 for his commitment to the development of holistic care virtual reality education.

Holistic care teaching using virtual reality technology

 Our hospital has developed 8 holistic care virtual reality teaching modules as of July 2024.

 A total of 3,946 trainees have experienced these modules.

 94.6-100% of the trainees are satisfied with the experience of the virtual reality modules.

 Pre- and post-tests for 4 teaching modules showed an improvement in learners' knowledge.

 Post-course test results for 2 modules demonstrated excellent performance.

 Follow-up on clinical performance for 3 modules revealed that learners improved or maintained good clinical behaviors after virtual reality training.

 A total of 6 teaching modules were published in domestic and international journals or presented at conferences.

The virtual reality teaching platform VIRTI, used by our center, is certified under the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management System and the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System standards.

6-100% (varies with each teaching module)

 The “Advance Decision” teaching module was presented at the AMEE 2021 conference and was listed as a highlight of the conference. In 2024, we published the world's first paper on patient autonomy education using virtual reality.

 The “Walking with You - What to Do in Postmortem Care” teaching module enrolled 2,874 participants — the highest number in the world.

 Dr. Tzu-Hung Liu, Director of the Virtual Reality Education Center, was elected an Associate Fellow of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) in 2024.