Mahidol University Created VR Contents for Teaching Skills of Infectious Disease Treatment and Held a Remote VR Seminar for Japanese Medical Students Connecting Thailand and Japan - PR Newswire APAC - PR Newswire Asia

Collaborative Development of Infectious Disease Education VR with Jolly Good and Juntendo University

, /PRNewswire/ -- Jolly Good Inc. (Chuo-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Kensuke Joji, hereinafter referred to arsenic "Jolly Good") held a bilateral aesculapian VR seminar connecting Thailand and Japan astatine JITMM 2022, an planetary aesculapian conference, utilizing VR teaching materials ^(*) developed successful collaboration with Royal Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand, President: Professor Banchong Mahaisavariya, hereinafter referred to arsenic "Mahidol University") and Juntendo University (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, President: Hajime Arai) connected infectious illness attraction unsocial to Mahidol University.

In this seminar, a lecturer from Mahidol University gave a distant VR lecture to Japanese aesculapian students and residents with the purpose of providing precocious Thai aesculapian exertion to Japanese aesculapian acquisition institutions.

Mahidol University Created VR Contents for Teaching Skills of Infectious Disease Treatment and Held a Remote VR Seminar for Japanese Medical Students Connecting Thailand and Japan

Thailand ranks 5th retired of 74 countries passim the satellite successful the fig of hospitals with JCI accreditation (an planetary modular for evaluating aesculapian care) and has top-level aesculapian attraction successful Asia, successful summation to which it possesses precocious attraction exertion relating to a assortment of infectious diseases. However, owed to being an aging society, Thailand besides faces a superior shortage of doctors and aesculapian workers.

Therefore, moving forward, Jolly Good volition proceed to make VR teaching materials based connected Thailand's precocious aesculapian exertion successful collaboration with Mahidol University, and opening with this bilateral aesculapian VR seminar, Jolly Good volition enactment to stock accusation with overseas aesculapian institutions successful a assortment of situations regarding the precocious level of Thailand's aesculapian exertion and volition enactment efforts to pull overseas aesculapian professionals to Thailand.

*This is simply a collaborative objection task betwixt Jolly Good and Juntendo University for the instauration of aesculapian acquisition VR for the intent of processing aesculapian quality resources done the usage of VR astatine Royal Mahidol University and passim Thailand. (For much information: https://newscast.jp/news/7194657)

There is simply a shortage of doctors successful Thailand, and it is indispensable to supply aesculapian technology

At present, much than 20% of the colonisation of Thailand is astatine slightest 60 years of age, and request successful the aesculapian manufacture successful the state is increasing. In addition, determination is 1 doc per 2,000 people, which means that determination is simply a shortage of doctors compared to different countries (one doc per 800 radical successful Europe, and 1 doc per 600 radical successful Japan), and the request for aesculapian workers is increasing.

Therefore, arsenic a nationalist policy, Thailand formed a 10-year strategical program for becoming a aesculapian hub successful 2016, and arsenic related organizations enactment unneurotic to found precocious aesculapian manufacture systems, caller measures to unafraid aesculapian unit are required.

Overview of bilateral VR seminar astatine Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) 2022

Theme: Virtual Reality successful Medical Education

Date: Wednesday, December 7

Location: Room C, Montien Hotel Surawong, Bangkok, Thailand

Juntendo University, Japan

Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Aongart Mahittikorn (Chairperson), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol Uni.

Dr. Rapeepan Prasertbun, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol Uni.

Prof. Toshio Naito M.D. (Chairperson), Department of General Medicine, Juntendo Uni.

Assoc. Prof. Hirotake Mori M.D., Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo Uni.

Dr. Valenti Simon, Department of General Medicine, Juntendo Uni.

Yutaro Oikawa, Jolly Good Inc.

Overview of collaboratively developed aesculapian acquisition VR for infectious illness treatment

Theme: VR Content for Hands-On Learning of Staining Methods successful Malaria Diagnosis

Malaria is simply a protozoan corruption transmitted by the wound of Anopheles mosquitoes. It is endemic successful tropical and subtropical regions astir the world, infecting astir 220 cardinal radical and sidesplitting an estimated 430,000 radical per year. The basal diagnosis method for malaria is microscopic examination. Giemsa staining is simply a method of staining humor samples and is utilized for histopathologic diagnosis of malaria parasites and different humor parasites. VR is utilized to usher the dyeing steps and techniques indispensable for due illustration preparation.

About Mahidol University (https://mahidol.ac.th/)

Mahidol University is Thailand's apical nationalist assemblage and the oldest assemblage to connection bachelor's degrees successful medical-related fields. It is simply a broad assemblage consisting of 17 faculties, 6 vocational schools, and 8 probe institutes, and actively conducts probe and method guidance related not lone to medicine but besides to quality health. Its proactive attack arsenic a probe institute is highly regarded some domestically and internationally.

About Juntendo University (https://www.juntendo.ac.jp/)

Juntendo University is simply a broad wellness assemblage and postgraduate schoolhouse assemblage consisting of 6 departments, 3 probe departments, and 6 affiliated hospitals. It promotes societal publication and quality assets improvement astatine the planetary level done the 3 pillars of education, research, and aesculapian attraction and practice. Juntendo University adopted Jolly Good's VR solutions successful 2021, and VR is already being utilized successful assorted settings, including pupil education.

About Jolly Good Inc. (https://jollygood.co.jp/en)

Jolly Good is simply a aesculapian exertion institution that develops high-precision VR solutions and healthcare services utilizing AI to analyse idiosyncratic behaviour successful the VR space. With assorted probe institutions and companies, we supply services that enactment the improvement of aesculapian attraction and people's information successful beingness by accelerating quality maturation and reintegration into nine done aesculapian education, enactment for radical with disabilities, and attraction of intelligence unwellness utilizing technologies specified arsenic VR and AI.

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