Virtual Reality and Employee Training in the Healthcare Industry

Authors

  • Abhishek Sardar

Abstract

Continuous changes in the healthcare industry are having a significant change in training structure of the healthcare professionals. Making the right investment in the employee training leads to the success of the organization as a whole. With the emerging technological advances, the healthcare practitioners needs to be adaptive with the ad hoc changes. Virtual Reality generate real-life situation by simulating more realistic scenarios. The aim of this paper is to understand the benefits of the use of Virtual Reality as a technology to train the employees of healthcare industry, and will provide an insight of the current training practices followed in healthcare industry and whether introducing Virtual Reality in the training method will add any value or not in terms of effective training and employee engagement.
The paper is backed by a survey conducted on medical practitioners to understand the current training methods in healthcare industry, and how introducing Virtual Reality as a method can ease the training process. The findings of the paper proposes to aid the healthcare industry to understand the need to adopt Virtual Reality in their training methods and revise the existing methods which is being followed currently. The paper is based on both primary and secondary research on introducing Virtual Reality as a technology in the ‘employees’ training in the healthcare industry and will be helpful for the industry to adopt to the growing technological change.

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2020-05-17

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