Chulalongkorn University has introduced a virtual reality-based training program for enhanced emergency collaborations. The medical education programme, called ER-VIPE (Emergency Room–Virtual Interprofessional Education), aims to improve emergency staff teamwork, communication, and patient safety while minimising human errors.
The programme features online medical coursework (MOOC) and interactive gameplay, which help build team-based non-technical skills, such as communication, decision-making, and multidisciplinary collaboration. Training scenarios are modelled on the TeamSTEPPS framework, a widely adopted teamwork system for healthcare.
The research indicating that VR-based healthcare training can cut medical errors by an average of 3.5 cases per month, lower patient deaths by 2.3 cases monthly, and boost patient satisfaction by nearly 1% each month. It also reported that early pilots in five unnamed hospitals showed a 28% improvement in team communication, 38 fewer critical errors in emergency scenarios, and reduced staff burnout.
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