Guy’s and St Thomas’ has been using virtual reality technology to train its surgeons of the future. 🎮 The trust recently held the largest virtual reality surgical training event in Europe, where trainees practised and developed their surgical skills in a safe environment. Wearing a headset and holding motion controllers in each hand, the trainees created an avatar and were transported into a virtual lecture theatre, followed by a virtual operating theatre, where they practised knee replacements, hip replacements and reconstructions. ➡️ Swipe to see Mr Thomas Lewis, trauma and orthopaedic surgery specialty trainee in action at the training session. He said: “The thing about surgical training is it’s all about exposure to theatre time and patients, but obviously patients don’t want us to be practising on them, so we want to get as much experience before going into theatre as possible. “The best thing about this virtual reality technology is it allows us to be in theatre, do procedures, learn all the steps and know exactly what is going on. The benefit for patients in the long run is that the surgeons of the future will have better training, better opportunities and will therefore provide even better care.” #NHS #NHSLondon