ABSTRACT
Trauma care, or the care of acutely injured patients, is a unique and high-stress clinical situation where a multidisciplinary team of medical providers comes together to deliver urgent, life-saving medical care. Simulation-based medical education uses actors, mannequins, or trainers to create an artificial representation of a real-world process to facilitate experiential learning. This chapter describes how we developed a cinematic virtual reality (cine-VR) trauma training curriculum at an urban, Level 1 trauma center and teaching hospital. It also describes curriculum development and production process, the technical and production processes, and current best practices for future academic medical centers. Innovation in medical education is beginning to utilize and embrace virtual reality. In trauma care training, cine-VR provides an on-demand and repetitive opportunity for trainees to practice their clinical and nonclinical skills without harming the patient in an authentic, high-stress chaotic environment.
