Seminar
Simulations in aviation and medicine: Cognitive and motivational factors influencing use in training
Date: Thursday 15th February
Commencing: 11:30 am
Venue: Economics & Commerce Theatre 3
Presented by: Dr Lisa Wise
Cognitive psychologist / Online learning specialist
MUVES Project, University of Melbourne
Contractor, BASE Study, DSTO
Trainee pilots are selected on the basis of high ability and skill levels, and are engaged in high risk / high cost activities that are performed by relatively few people. There is a long history of simulator use in pilot training, but with the
increasing sophistication of simulation capability, the extent to which simulation training can replace aircraft training time is under investigation by DSTO. Similar selectivity, skill levels, risk factors and cost apply to other training cohorts for example, in medicine and dentistry, where there is an increasing demand for, and use of high fidelity simulation in surgical and other training. The emerging medical simulation industry provides insight into the contextual nature of expertise, the educational versus business case for building simulations, the role of simulations in training, and the organisational pressures for widespread adoption of simulations in training.
This seminar is the second of a series associated with a new research project “Melbourne University Virtual Environments for Simulation” (MUVES) co-funded by the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, and the University of Melbourne Strategic Research Innovation Fund (SRIF).
Thursday 15th February 2007 at 11.30am
Venue:
Economics & Commerce Theatre 3
Room G13, Ground Floor,
Professors’ Walk
The University of Melbourne