Workshop on creating training tasks for patient treatment using the VR/MR technology of SIMtoCARE

Tuesday, 22nd August 2023 - 13:30 to 16:30

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BST (UTC+1)

Duration:

3 Hours

Workshop on creating training tasks for patient treatment using the VR/MR technology of SIMtoCARE

Space 4 @ The Spine

Session synopsis:

The team at SIMtoCARE with support from the university of Liverpool will facilitate a hands on workshop on creating training tasks for VR patient treatment. The integration of patient specific intra oral scans in the training case will be specifically included. See first hand the benefits of virtual reality dental training and how to get the best use out of the SIMtoCARE simulators and our teams wealth of VR knowledge and experience.

Speakers:

Barry Quinn

Chair in Restorative Dentistry & Dental Education

University of Liverpool, School of Dentistry, UK

Professor Barry F.A. Quinn, Chair in Restorative Dentistry & Dental Education, Academic Lead for Restorative Dentistry, University of Liverpool, School of Dentistry. Barry is presently Secretary General of the Association Dental Education in Europe (ADEE), President of the British Alliance for Researchers in Dental Education and Scholarship (BARDES), co-President of the Dental Teachers of Professionalism in the UK and a past President of the Education Research Group (ERG) of the International Association of Dental Research (2018-2020) and metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association (2017). In 2017, Barry was the main lead for the Shaping the Future of Dental Education world workshop held at King’s College London.

At the University of Liverpool, Barry leads the integrated teaching of restorative dentistry for the collaborative learning core for the interprofessional education of dentist and dental therapy students. Barry is a past recipient of the ADEE mature educators award (2013) and interprofessional educators award (2016) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) emerging leaders. Barry’s main research has included interprofessional education, haptic virtual reality surgical skills education and has won many UK and international awards as well as having over 170 refereed publications and abstracts.