Metaverse technologies in acute care medical education: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The concept of the metaverse is a virtual world that immerses users, allowing them to interact with the digital environment. Due to metaverse's utility in collaborative and immersive simulation, it can be advantageous for medical education in high-stakes care settings such as emergency, critical, and acute care. Consequently, there has been a growth in educational metaverse use, which has yet to be characterized alongside other simulation modalities literature. This scoping review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of all research describing metaverse use in education for emergency, critical, and acute care.

Methods

We used Arksey and O'Malley's framework with the Levac et al. modifications to conduct a scoping review by searching these five databases (MEDLI

SUBMITTER: Lau J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11724698 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature