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Virtual reality as a teaching aid for anatomy

Laura Mason Orcid Logo, Marc Holmes

INTED2019 Proceedings, Volume: 1, Pages: 5132 - 5137

Swansea University Author: Laura Mason Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.21125/inted.2019.1275

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Within medical education virtual reality (VR) environments have been used routinely for training and assessing medical skills (ref) whereas they remain less developed in other fields requiring knowledge of human anatomy. A full understanding of human anatomy requires students to learn a large number...

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Published in: INTED2019 Proceedings
ISSN: 2340-1079
Published: Valencia, Spain 13th International Technology, Education and Development Conference 2019
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