Singapore leverages serious games and simulation in healthcare education

Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Health & Ministry of Manpower has unveiled the new SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Medical Simulation (SIMS) i3 Hub. It is a healthcare simulation training facility which houses a wide array of Extended Reality (XR) solutions & cutting-edge gaming equipment to hone the clinical skills & competencies of healthcare professionals. Through the i3 Hub, SIMS aims to inspire collaborations and innovations in healthcare simulation by bringing together like-minded healthcare professionals, while fostering the incubation of new ideas to enhance patient safety. The name i3 reflects the focus on these three key areas: Inspire, Innovate, Incubate. The Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) game, developed by the SingHealth Alice Lee Institute of Advanced Nursing, aims to reduce the duration of in-person training by 25 per cent. The game will also be integrated as part of the official BCLS certification training across SingHealth in 2022, & is estimated to train up to 5,000 healthcare professionals in a year. To support the proliferation of serious games in healthcare education, SIMS has collaborated with Serious Games Asia to develop the Healthcare-Training & Assessment Hosting Platform (Health-TAP).