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Oxford Medical Simulation

Founded 2017
Employees 50+
Primary contact
201 Borough High Street
SE1 1JA London
United Kingdom
Links
https://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/
Sections
Technologies
Oxford Medical Simulation delivers virtual reality medical simulation — training healthcare professionals to provide consistently world-class patient management without risking lives. The company has developed fast-paced, repeatable, real-life scenarios that can deliver consistently excellent, standardized clinical training to doctors and nurses to improve patient care. Using the latest virtual reality headsets, learners are immersed in virtual scenarios with fully interactive, acutely unwell patients. They must manage the patient as in real life: assessing, instigating treatment and interacting with their interdisciplinary team against the clock. The environment, patient and other team members are fully interactive, with artificial intelligence-driven patient behavior, adaptive conversation and dynamic physiology. Learners then receive personal feedback, performance metrics and a guided self-reflective debrief to ensure knowledge transfers to practice.
Select partners: NHS, Mayo Clinic, Government of Jersey, Boston Children's Hospital, Sheffield Hallam University, Johns Hopkins University, Hull York Medical School, Middlesex University, University of Oxford, University of Northampton, University Hospital Southampton, University of Plymouth, University of Manchester, University of Edinburgh.
Founded 2017
Employees 50+
Primary contact
201 Borough High Street
SE1 1JA London
United Kingdom
Links
https://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/
Sections
Technologies

Funding 💰

Select investors NHS Innovation Accelerator, QVentures, Force Over Mass Capital, Court Cavendish, Eden Rock Capital Management, Oxford Investment Opportunity Network

Key people 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Highlights ⭐

  • It works: Virtual reality simulation has been widely adopted in surgical training where it has been shown to "decrease injury, increase speed of operations and improve overall outcomes." The same is true in medicine where "virtual reality simulations can bridge the gap between theory and practice by immersing the learner in a realistic, dynamic, complex setting." 🔗
  • It's cost-effective: VR simulation has been shown to reduce cost and improve safety in advanced life support training, "increasing safety, visibility, and reproducibility of actions as well as reducing costs." Therefore, though the development costs can be high, the expected revenue, in terms of better patient care and prevention of error, provides a decisive argument for investing in such development. 🔗
  • Partners galore: Oxford Medical Simulation has managed to partner with a number of respectable universities and institutions in the UK and U.S.
  • Product portfolio: The company offers multiple products for different use cases, including OMS Nursing, OMS Medical, OMS Interprofessional, OMS Distance, OMS Assess and OMS Recruit.

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Awards & Recognitions 🏆

  • 2020 VR Awards: VR Healthcare of the Year Finalist 🔗

Quotes 💬

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The ability for our nursing students to practice standardized, realistic clinical scenarios whenever they need is game-changing.
— Executive Director of Simulation, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing on implementing OMS
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Honestly, this is the single most useful experience I've had so far in my medical training!
— Resident in Emergency Medicine, NHS
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With the OMS platform, we can increase simulation capabilities that offer students access to complex patient care scenarios while optimizing time, space, and resources.
— Director of Simulation, University of New England
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The OMS system allows us to integrate theory into practice in a really meaningful manner, allowing progression throughout nurses' academic careers.
— Simulation Lead, University of Northampton School of Nursing
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Embedding OMS has enabled us to give a far greater number of learners access to simulation in a shorter space of time.
— Director of Simulation, Oxford University Medical School
Last update: August 15, 2022