Our Goal

ResiLens aims to provide students a more convenient and immersive way to learn compared to current methods, empowering students choose specialties with more preparation and education. 

Current Methods of Learning 

Webinars

Students can utilize public webinars hosted by professional schools to learn more about their respective field of learning. This allows students to connect with professionals that aim to educate students. 

Site Visits

Students can opt to visit sites of interest on their own to see what professionals actually do in the real world through campus tours or other site-hosted events.

Shadowing

Students can shadow medical professionals to see what the day-to-day activities of the professional are, giving the student the best and most immersive experience of life in the medical field.

Volunteering

Students can volunteer in various areas of interest, allowing them to immersive themselves in the environment while also providing help and use to patients and professionals.

Vlogs

Prospective students can watch social media videos created by current students or professionals that highlight the day in the life of their respective roles. 

Current Products/Solutions

UbiSim

A VR environment for nurses to simulate patient experiences and learning scenarios.

Oxford Medical Simulation

 A VR application on the meta quest 2 that simulates medical scenarios in a variety of medical fields.

Simxvr

A VR platform that allows current healthcare students and professionals to practice in or create medical scenarios.

Limitations 

Current Methods of Learning

• Time/Convenience: Methods such as webinars and site visits are useful in understanding the medical field, but it is often time consuming and difficult to manage these methods of learning if a student is busy or has a wide range of fields they are interested in.

• Limitations of roles: As a volunteer or shadower, students often find it difficult to move into different departments they are interested in as they don't have the necessary skills/education to work in these fields

• Difficulties of find learning environments: It is often difficult to find these learning environments, such as finding professionals to shadow or places to volunteer at, and this makes it difficult for students to access these learning methods.

• Biased displayed of roles: When watching vlogs or videos, the role of a student or professional is displayed from the POV of the creator, resulting an unrealistic and incomplete view of their role.

Current Products/Solutions

• Learning is too specialized: these products are generally for students already immersed in their domain rather than students looking to learn about various domains

• Assumption of medical knowledge: Because the products are for current students of their respective role, the goal of the scenarios is to reinforce current assumed technical skills and knowledge.

• Inaccesible: Many of these technologies are privately owned, and it is difficult for prospective students to access them in a convenient manner. 

ResiLens' Improvement  

• Accessibility: With ResiLens, students can easily access simulation materials from from all over the world either through their personal VR headset or those from their schools. 

• Efficiency: Since ResiLens incorporates various specialties in one place, students can experience fields of their interest with very little additional time cost. 

• First person POV: Within the simulation, the students are experiencing every medical task from their own perspective, maximizing their learning experience.

• Tailored learning experience: ResiLens allows students to adjust task difficulties to their respective levels of experience, enabling personalized progression