Background Interest in the metaverse has been growing worldwide as the virtual
environment provides opportunities for highly immersive and interactive experiences …

Background Virtual reality (VR) produces a virtual manifestation of the real world and has
been shown to be useful as a digital education modality. As VR encompasses different …

In recent times, the emergence of the Metaverse has garnered worldwide attention as an
innovative digital space that holds immense potential to provide a wide range of health …

The Metaverse is 'an integrated network of 3D virtual worlds.'It incorporates digitally created
realities into the real world, involves virtual copies of existing places and changes the …

Disaster medicine (DM) training aims to recreate stressful, mass casualty scenarios faced by
medical professionals in the field with high fidelity. Virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) …

Mixed reality (MR) technology has the potential to enhance the disaster preparedness of
medical first responders in mass-casualty incidents through new training methods. In this …

The technological revolution of past decades has led teaching and learning of evolutionary
biology to move away from its naturalist origins. As a result, students' learning experiences …

Background Disaster medicine is a component of the German medical education since
2003. Nevertheless, studies have shown some inconsistencies within the implementation of …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has not only brought many aspects of disaster
medicine into everyday awareness but also led to a massive change in medical teaching …

The current Covid 19 pandemic has provided an opportunity to reflect on how future training
and preparedness for pandemics and disasters might be improved upon. Previous authors …