Thessaloniki: An experiential surgery experience will be offered to the medical students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

A hands-on operating country acquisition volition beryllium disposable to aesculapian students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki successful the coming play of clip done the immersion cube, a abstraction that introduces them to a unsocial multi-sensory learning environment. “It is simply a abstraction successful which 1 lives successful virtual reality, without wearing glasses oregon masks. It is simply a country equipped with peculiar projection screens, which successful this mode tin beryllium ‘disguised’ successful immoderate different space, providing an acquisition to its visitor,” Director of the Laboratory of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation of the Department of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Professor of Medical Physics and Informatics successful Medical Education, Panagiotis Bamidis.

“Imagine being capable to convey the representation that the bosom surgeon sees wrong this room, and it’s similar surviving the full country country being there,” Bamidis said connected the juncture of the presumption of the immersion cube a fewer days agone astatine the 89th Thessaloniki International Fair. “We privation to usage this evidently successful our grooming to alteration the workshops and immoderate parts of the lectures, demonstrations done a idiosyncratic acquisition alternatively than done a elemental two-dimensional descent presumption oregon a statement of a speaker. That’s our extremity educationally: arsenic aboriginal arsenic this semester to beryllium capable to enactment it into the acquisition process erstwhile it’s completed.”

At the adjacent level, the immersion cube tin beryllium utilized successful diligent rehabilitation and grooming of different wellness professionals successful general. For example, Bamidis pointed retired that “the abstraction tin beryllium utilized for the restoration of perception, speech, etc,” and added: “We volition spot however rehabilitation from aphasia oregon from strokes is done. These are our interests, astatine least, arsenic good arsenic the sensory stimulation of radical to amended their carnal and intelligence wellness and truthful their well-being.”

The Director of the Laboratory of Medical Physics and Digital Innovation of the Department of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki mentioned, besides, the acquisition of a caller instrumentality with the enactment of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK), which is located successful the caller magnetoencephalography portion of AHEPA and tin observe the magnetic fields of the brain, frankincense signaling its relation each millisecond. The masks connected to the instrumentality were besides presented astatine the Thessaloniki International Fair successful bid for the nationalist to spot them up adjacent and explicit interest, if they wish, to enactment successful the measurements that volition beryllium made successful the coming period. “These measurements volition instrumentality the fingerprint of the encephalon web of the participants, and based connected a multi-year survey that we are starting, we volition beryllium capable to person information connected the wide physiological footprint of Thessaloniki. Then with this, we volition marque comparisons with different pathological conditions,” helium said, and added: “people expressed rather a batch of involvement and determination was rather a affirmative response.”