Brunel Medical School Smart Glasses Project
The Brunel Medical School is looking to raise funds toward the purchase of "smart glasses" and software to be used in a clinical setting. This cutting-edge Virtual Clinical Experience Platform technology from Global Health Education Group will allow students to virtually attend real patient visits with clinicians, which will enhance group learning, promote accessibility and cut down on costs to students and clinics.
Benefits of the Virtual Clinical Experience Platform
The Brunel Medical School is keen to experiment, develop and adopt new cutting-edge EdTech and pedagogy for health education. This will benefit students in the following ways:
- Removes the barrier to scalability of health education providing the ability to offer virtual clinical experiences to an unlimited number of participants
- Allows students to access diverse clinical experiences and enables placement opportunities in hard to reach places e.g. hospices, nursing homes, home visits, specialist nursing clinics, dementia, learning disabilities
- Improves the quality of teaching and learning experience and enables the parity of education to meet the national requirements of the curriculum
- Reduces the cost of delivering clinical experiences, as well as being designed to protect the highest standards of patient safety and confidentiality
Cost of setup
The Global Health Education Group hardware and software package will include training for clinicians/teachers, setup, monitoring, and supporting materials. The cost breakdown is as follows:
- Setup costs, use of platform and onboarding £12,000
- Vuzix M400 Smart Glasses £1,413
- Cameras, speaker and screens for student viewing £1,674
- Otoscope* £342
- Sthetoscope* £558
- Additional hardware: £445 Total Costs £19,721
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The Brunel Medical School has a strong vision for the future of health and medical education. You will help us in delivering an innovative medical education for students in the West London area and beyond.
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