In this lecture, we'll look at how recent research findings in real-time digital simulation for medicine have the potential to change the way doctors train, plan complex operations and perform interventions. I'll also be emphasizing the importance of transferring research results to innovative companies capable of making these new tools available to doctors.
In the field of learning, I will present the challenges facing more and more clinicians, due to increasing training difficulties and the much more rapid introduction of new technologies or intervention techniques requiring regular learning. In particular, I'd like to talk about an initiative launched by the American foundation HelpMeSee, which aims to significantly reduce cataract-related blindness in developing countries. This large-scale humanitarian initiative is based, on the one hand, on the emergence of a new surgical technique adapted to the constraints of the target countries and, on the other, on the use of highly advanced simulation techniques to train a large number of surgeons in this new approach. This research project, which has now become a development project, has the potential to radically change the way in which the role of the virtual in medical training is viewed today.
