Implementation of Gender-based violence Project
16 de January de 2023
Virtual Reality experiences implementation of the project Approaching gender-based violence in health sciences degrees
The project Approaching gender-based violence in degrees of health sciences: PBL and Virtual Reality, is a project that began in 2020 with the aim of creating educational resources with the PBL (Project-Based Learning) methodology to work on the approach to gender-based violence for health sciences degrees students, especially for the degrees of medicine, nursing, nutrition, physiotherapy and occupational therapy. The aim is to train health science students to identify situations of gender-based violence with an intersectional and sensitive look at different types of violence (physical, psychological, economic, sexual) so that they know the intervention circuit beyond health services.
Some PBL scenarios have been designed with the corresponding didactic guides of which we have developed a part in Virtual Reality. The incorporation of immersive training experiences reinforces the experiential nature of the experience, since using Virtual Reality glasses, the student is in the middle of a relevant scenario for their learning, such as a primary care centers. This experience is revealed through the use of 360º video where immersive learning allows the user to leave their passive role as a spectator and become an active element of learning, making decisions that affect the course of the training experience.
Read more about this project here.
Virtual Reality Resources
Below you can see these resources in 360º video through the browser, but they are specially designed to be viewed with Virtual Reality glasses in order to feel total immersion.
Case 1
A 60-year-old patient goes to the CAP to request a medication review.
Case 2
A young patient who is pregnant comes to the emergency room with a complication. This experience has two different endings, the first version, where the companion stays in the room, and the second version, where the companion leaves the room.
Case 3
A young girl goes to a monitoring center for drug addiction.
Case 4
A middle-aged woman comes to the Primary Care Center with her son for a pediatric consultation.
First project implementations
The first step in the implementation of this project has been to carry out various training sessions for the teachers who will carry out the approach to gender-based violence with their students.
We have started conducting pilots (at the moment 3) with the teachers of the higher level training cycles in the field of health so that they themselves can see the emotions and feelings that their students will find when facing this training. Students will receive certain information before facing these immersive situations that will place them in the action. Afterwards, they will have to think about the emotions they have felt, and share them among the different students. The program includes a series of questions and paradigms that emphasize each of the things that have happened during the experiences that may or may not be correct depending on what you want to work on in each case.
The first pilots of these experiences have been carried out with a total of 60 students from higher education training cycles in health field. In the sessions, the scenarios displayed in Virtual Reality made the students ask themselves several questions and different emotions arose from what they had felt in each situation. The feedback from the students was very positive, since the immersion is total and you really feel inside the scene you are experiencing, so the emotions come out naturally.
During the 2022-2023 academic year, these resources will begin to be implemented to address gender-based violence on a recurring basis between different degrees in the health field.
We are very happy to be able to participate in projects like these where training experiences in Virtual Reality that we have created together with various institutions can be useful for the population, as it is a case as important and rigorously topical as the detection of gender-based violence. Students who go through this training will have a more open vision of what is happening in society and how to deal with possible situations in this field that they will surely encounter during the course of their professional life.
