Mahidol University, the Top University in Thailand, Has Officially Adopted Jolly Good's Medical VR - PR Newswire

Developing and Demonstrating VR of Infectious Disease Education in Collaboration with Juntendo University

Approximately 15% of All Deaths successful Thailand Are Caused by Infectious Diseases

, /PRNewswire/ -- Jolly Good Inc. (Chuo-ku, Tokyo, CEO: Kensuke Joji, hereinafter referred to arsenic "Jolly Good"), successful collaboration with Juntendo University (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, President: Hajime Arai), volition commence a objection task for the instauration of aesculapian acquisition VR for the intent of processing aesculapian quality resources done the usage of VR astatine Royal Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand, President: Prof. Banchong Mahaisavariya, hereinafter referred to arsenic "Mahidol University") and passim Thailand. This is the archetypal clip that Japanese aesculapian VR has been officially introduced into an overseas university.

In this project, Jolly Good volition supply Mahidol University with VR teaching worldly accumulation facilities and VR acquisition instrumentality to make an situation that enables the self-production of VR teaching materials for infectious illness attraction acquisition astatine the university. The exertion volition beryllium introduced successful 4 departments: the Faculty of Tropical Medicine astatine Mahidol University, the School of Nursing and the Faculty of Medicine astatine Ramathibodi Hospital, and the Educational Simulation Center astatine Chakri Naruebodindra Medical Institute. The VR acquisition materials volition beryllium utilized successful objection classes astatine Mahidol University to verify their effectiveness, aft which they volition beryllium utilized to behaviour aesculapian acquisition utilizing VR astatine determination hospitals successful Thailand.

This task is besides partially supported by Juntendo University's IT-based Human Resource Development Project for Infectious Diseases and Community Medicine successful Thailand and Southeast Asia ^(*), a task adopted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW).

(*See much accusation astir the adopted project: https://kyokuhp.ncgm.go.jp/activity/open/r4pdf/10_Juntendo_University.pdf)

• Approximately 15% of each deaths successful Thailand are caused by infectious diseases. Education connected infectious illness attraction is required successful aesculapian signifier successful Thailand.

According to a survey by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Thailand has the highest percent of deaths from infectious diseases among countries successful Asia, revealing that its healthcare strategy for infectious diseases is lagging behind.

In Thailand, 0.9 successful 1,000 radical are doctors, which indicates a shortage of doctors successful Thailand compared to the different countries. In addition, doctors successful Thailand are required to prosecute successful assemblage aesculapian attraction for 3 years aft graduation, but they bash not person capable grooming oregon acquisition for infectious diseases, and determination is simply a request for a strategy to make quality resources who tin respond to assorted infectious diseases including COVID-19, and supply aesculapian attraction successful the community.

• Medium- and semipermanent imaginativeness for the instauration and objection project

In the archetypal year, the aesculapian VR programme volition beryllium completed astatine Mahidol University. In consequent years, the task volition purpose to heighten their cognition and acquisition astatine an aboriginal signifier and amended the prime of aesculapian attraction including dealing with wellness crises successful assemblage medicine, thereby providing acquisition utilizing VR to the aesculapian students, residents, and physicians progressive successful assemblage medicine on the Thai border.

Year 1: Build a self-production situation for VR teaching materials astatine Mahidol University, implicit the acquisition program, and commence cognition astatine the university.

Year 2: Provide VR acquisition materials to determination hospitals successful Thailand that collaborate with Mahidol University, and behaviour operational deployment of the materials passim Thailand.

Year 3 and beyond: Provide VR teaching materials to Vietnam and different Southeast Asian countries.

• Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting "JITMM2022" Bilateral Medical VR Seminar Information

We volition clasp a bilateral aesculapian VR seminar connecting Japan and Thailand astatine Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting "JITMM2022" successful Thailand. In this seminar, professors from Mahidol University volition springiness a distant VR lecture to aesculapian students of Juntendo University successful Japan by utilizing the acquisition VR of Infectious Disease Education produced astatine Mahidol University.

＜Seminar Information＞
Theme: Virtual Reality successful Medical Education
Date and clip (ICT): Monday, December 7th 10:30am – 12:00 pm
Place: Montiel Hotel Surawong Room C, Bangkok, Thailand
Speakers :
Dr. Aongart Mahittikorn, Associate Professor, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University (Chairperson)
Dr. Rapeepan Prasertbun, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
Dr. Toshio Naito, Professor, Faculty of Medical Science, Juntendo University (Chairperson)
Dr. Hirotake Mori, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medical Science, Juntendo University

• Comments made by those progressive successful the project

  We person large expectations successful VR-medical education. After the COVID-19 pandemic successful Thailand, we faced difficulties teaching infectious diseases to students and aesculapian staff. We person been seeking caller technologies to supply high-quality aesculapian education, and present Thailand educators are much acrophobic astir VR. In this project, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, plans to marque high-quality VR contents successful the Tropical Medicine field.

<Hirotake Mori: Associate Professor, Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medical Science, Juntendo University; and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University>

In effect to the COVID-19 outbreak, Juntendo University has worked to make aesculapian quality resources for infectious diseases portion in-person classes and bedside signifier person been restricted. Medical acquisition utilizing VR is precise realistic, providing an acquisition akin to existent aesculapian treatment. It tin besides beryllium utilized for acquisition successful distant areas and assemblage medicine. With the practice of Jolly Good, Mahidol University successful Thailand volition statesman to behaviour aesculapian acquisition utilizing VR. We anticipation that this task volition beryllium a springboard for the proviso of modular aesculapian acquisition transcending nationalist borders to the satellite successful the future.

• 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://en.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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