Under the auspices of the Faculty of Medicine, the virtual reality laboratory committee meetings started

Under the auspices of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Manar Al-Lawama; the first meeting of the Virtual Reality Laboratory Committee, which was ordered to be formed by Prof. Islam Massad, President of Yarmouk University, with the membership of the deans of the faculties of Medicine, Computer & Information Technology, Al-Hijjawi Technology and a number of faculty members in these faculties. This committee aims to study the possibility of establishing a virtual reality laboratory that will benefit the three faculties and the rest of the university’s faculties. It will begin to include these technologies in teaching some subjects of the bachelor’s degree of Doctor of Medicine curricular subjects, and it will also be a joint research center in these faculties. 

 The Dean started by introducing the attendees to the objectives of this committee, with the introduction of Dr. Firas Al-Bakri, an orthopedic surgeon and expert in virtual and augmented reality technologies in medical education, who participated in the work of the committee via Zoom technology. Dr. Bakri presented his vision for establishing this pioneering laboratory in the region. A discussion took place between Dr. Bakri and the members of the committee, and then private discussions took place within this committee, and it was agreed to proceed through a solid plan to achieve this hoped-for goal.